Category: News
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2019 – a year in review…
Flyingwise, I’ve had a blast in 2019 – approx 85 hours of coastal soaring, xc, volbiv and hike & fly have made it a truly fun and adventurous year. You’ll notice that I’ve not mentioned comps – that’s because this year, for the first time in years, I didn’t participate in any of the British…
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How to not go missing!
On Thursday 5th April we had a pilot “missing” for four hours in mid Wales after an XC flight from Magic Mountain. Fortunately it all ended well (no injuries, no drama, just no comms and a late retrieve), but it has raised some good learning points which we can all benefit from: 1) As soon…
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What a week…!
I finished off my last post by praying to whichever god it is that’s in charge of the weather to give us some great flying in St André. Well, my prayers were answered! We had five great tasks, plus a day in St Vincent-les-Forts before the comp, and a great day’s mountain biking from St…
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XC Tracer
I have recently become the UK supplier for the XC Tracer and XC Tracer Mini lag-free varios. Both varios share the same barometer and 9 DOF (degrees of freedom) sensor, however the XC Tracer has a GPS chip and Bluetooth LE to allow it to connect to smartphones and Kobos, whilst the XC Tracer Mini…
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XC-Tracer Bluetooth GPS/Vario + Flyskyhy iPhone app – is it time to ditch my Flymaster?
Edited 15/06/2016 to take into account new developments since I originally wrote this article I’ve been flying with Flyskyhy for 2.5 years now and love it, especially when running on the iPhone 6 with its barometric sensor, but when I heard about a new Indiegogo funded “lag-free” Bluetooth GPS/vario called XC-Tracer, which works with Flyskyhy, I…
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A weekend in Advanceland!
Last weekend I headed out to Advance’s HQ in Thun for the XC Serial Team Meeting where all the team pilots got to meet each other and the guys at Advance, and most importantly, to pick up our new Sigma 9s. After we’d done the formalities we headed out to Grindelwald and took the gondola…
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Is this the perfect GoPro mount?
Ever since I bought my Isaw A2 ACE (GoPro ripoff) camera I’ve been searching for the ideal mount for it. I first tried telescopic poles (the first was a cheap Chinese one bought off eBay however there was nothing stopping the sections from rotating relative to each other, so I ditched that in favour of…
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Reflecting on a fantastic year…
2013… Wow, what a year! So many memories… A superb long weekend in Chamonix in April, flying over 100 miles across three counties landing next to the Atlantic Ocean in June, three other 100km + flights, superb comps in Manteigas and St Andre and some really fun tandem flying including taking my 79 year old mother flying.…
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Epsilon 7 finally hits the streets…
The long awaited E7 has finally arrived in the UK, and Greg and Carlo at FlyBubble down in Sussex have been putting it through its paces in their review of it. I think they like it 🙂 Meanwhile the Advance film-makers have been hard at work producing the E7 promotional video – take a look…
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SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger for hire…
I’ve recently bought a SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger and in order to keep my costs down I’m willing to hire it out if I’m not using it, for what I hope are reasonable rates. Click here for more information.
Advance paragliders in the West Country 