Category: Videos
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Volbiv Talk for LLSC
Mike Jardine invited me to do a talk about my volbiv adventures for 24th February LLSC Club “Meeting” – well thanks to Covid and Zoom I didn’t have to travel up to Scotland (more’s the pity), so here it is… sit back and get inspired! All the links mentioned in the talk are in the…
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The Inaugural Gumball Transalps Rally!
Having had an amazing volbiv adventure with four friends in July 2019, flying from Saint André-les-Alpes in the south of France to Andermatt in Switzerland, I was keen to encourage more pilots to give volbiv a go in a supportive group environment, and so the idea of the Gumball Transalps Rally was hatched
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XC Planning club Zoom talk
Here’s a recording of my Zoom talk on which I presented on 26th November. You can download a pdf version of the notes from the link below:
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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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Jurassic Winter Vol Biv
Yes, that’s right – a vol biv in the UK, in winter 😂 12th-13th February 2019 The forecast for the next few days was generally from the south – SSW’ly backing SE’ly over three days – and desperate for a bit of adventure, I came up with a pretty madcap plan to take off from…
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Crossing the Heart of Wales
Friday 12th April 2019 Having been unable to get out to play the day before (I had to content myself with flying vicariously via xcrt.aero), so I was keen to make the most of a pretty good forecast for Friday and lift-sharing plans were duly made, and James, Tom and I arrived at the “Kettle…
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Volbiv 2018 – A Grand Tour of the Ecrins
I’d been talking the talk but not walking the walk for quite a long time before this summer’s volbiv trip to France, and if “shopping the shops” was also a phrase, then I’d being doing that too, buying all sorts of stuff over the internet – from Amazon and eBay of course, but also from…
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Wales all the way!
So, I’ve been out on three or four good days this year, and it’s been Wales that has delivered every time… Maybe I’m just being drawn to the bigger hills which offer an opportunity for a good hike up, or maybe it’s just where RASP is indicating the best conditions, but whatever, I’ve had a…
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Things are looking up :-)
After 4.5 hours’ flying last Friday and Saturday I can officially say that things are looking up after what’s been a very long wet and windy winter here in the UK. Cumulus clouds are gracing our skies once again, and I’ve been up at cloudbase for the first time in five months, wahoo! I’ve even…
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In the bleak mid-winter
This time of year, unless you’re lucky enough have a holiday booked to South America, Africa or Australia, can be a pretty bleak time for UK pilots. And this winter is no exception – we’ve had a succession of windy and stormy spells, interspersed with periods of claggy grey “meh” weather, with only the very…
Advance paragliders in the West Country 