Category: Videos
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2018 – Bring it on!
So, six days into 2018 and I have flown! Ok, so the flight only lasted eight minutes, but it was a fun mission! Fellow desperate optimist, Tim Bishop, picked me up in Bath at 0615 and by 0700 we were walking up Ubley in darkness only punctuated by the light of the moon (having forgotten…
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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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Great Expectations
Well, it’s been a funny old season for me, I’ve had some really fun flights but the big distances have been elusive apart from a lovely 135km from Rybury back in early June. I’ve been busier at work this year and haven’t been able to take so many days off on short notice, and on…
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About bloody time too… :-)
So finally, on June 3rd, a whole two months into the season, I flew my first 100km+ flight of the year. (By way of comparison, by the same time last year I’d flown three 100km+ flights, although interestingly, in 2015 I didn’t fly my first 100km+ flight until 4th June). Through a combination of poorish…
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Is it finally all over?
So, after two successive 50km Sundays in October, I wonder if this season is finally over? On Sunday 2nd I had a wonderful aerial tour of the Brecon Beacons, and just a week later I had a really lovely 5okm flight from Ubley down to near Taunton. It didn’t take too long before we climbed out…
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Wow, what an August!
After a very mediocre June and July we were owed some good flying weather, and I think it’s fair to say it came good! I’d had some fun flights in July, including three flights from Selsley, however with two at 83kms and one 68kms, and without a 100km+ flight since my flight from the Malverns to…
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Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat!
Saturday 30th July was a busy day on Selsley what with Avon hosting a round of the Advance BCC there, and lots of other pilots descending on the hill on the promise of a good NW’ly day. I arrived with Rich Osborne and Annee Brekenridge at about 1045 just as the first gliders got airborne in the…
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What a line!
Edit 13/6/2016 – scroll down to watch the video of the flight… Tuesday 24th May. I really shouldn’t take the day off work what with me heading out to Gemona on Friday for the British Open but I just can’t stop myself particularly as RASP was bright orange! I hitched an early-doors ride with Nev…
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Flyskyhy video walkthrough
Back in 2013 I wrote a review of the great iOS paragliding app, Flyskyhy. Obviously the developer, René Dekker, has added many new features since then, so a couple of weeks ago I recorded a video walkthrough of the main features of the app as it stands at the moment. I hope you find it useful…
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Spring has sprung!
Well, there’s no doubt about it, after what has seemed like a long and barren winter flying-wise, the xc season has started in earnest. Good Friday provided my first opportunity for an xc flight but a slightly tricky forecast made for a difficult site call… I reckoned Combe Gibbet was probably the best option and…
Advance paragliders in the West Country 