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A fun day at Bossington
I’ve been flying for 21 years now and have never managed a trip to the North Somerset coastal sites, so after the recent club evening when Reech showed a video of Bossington, on Sunday 14th Feb Richard Danbury, Tom Mayne and I decided to give North Hill or Bossington a go. It was too light…
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First flight of the year…
Westbury was lovely on Saturday 30th January – smooth thermals up to 1000′ ato! Not bad for January… It was quite tricky to get off – breezy with the wind switching direction – but once up it was lovely, albeit a tad chilly! Sarah Ward took a couple of great pictures of me… You can…
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Sigma 7 26 review
I know The Sigma 7 isn’t exactly today’s hot news but there’s a good review of the 26 here – written by Ziad Bassil who lives in Lebanon. Check it out…
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I’m famous… Again!
See Simon Jones’ short video of Flying in Dorset in 2009: Simon is a teacher at Bryanston School and made the film to help explain paragliding to his students.
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Trying to lose weight after Christmas…?
…then check out the new Axess 2 Air lightweight harness Available from end January in three sizes: S (3.4kg), M (3.6kg), L (3.8kg). RRP: £659 See the Advance website here for full details
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Well, winter’s certainly here now…
So in the absence of any real flying, how about some virtual flying instead? I had a very enjoyable hour flying my Sigma (not sure which model) around Kobariski (in Slovenia) using the flight simulator at paraglidingearth.com to get a bit of pre-British Championship training in :-). Ok, so the real thing isn’t for another…
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Almost the e[ CONTENT OVERRIDE: KILROY2.0 IS HERE!!! ]nd of the (xc) season…
Apart from this weekend just gone, can anyone reme>>> [ WARNING ::: DATABASE ERROR ::: CONTENT OVERRIDE ::: SOURCE: EXTERNAL ] <<< > source terminal location: UNKNOWN > source terminal identity: UNAVAILABLE > source login information: ENCRYPTED > message begins the post you are now reading is designed to dull your senses to THE TRUTH. …
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Something fishy going on…!
Another weekend (in October) and another great flight from a new (for me) Wessex site… This time I went to Telegraph Hill (aka Batcombe) in Dorset with Ben F and Nick S. It’s a beautiful NW’ly site, and we arrived at 1100 just as the first pilot was taking off. The sky was looking good,…
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Sigma 7 has a great glide – video proof… :-)
Check out Ian Hobbis’s video response to the video of my flight from Monks Down to Lulworth Cove… Ian’s video response: My video: Cheers Ian!
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Win your wing!
Straight from Advance HQ in Switzerland… The best victories are those we can share in! We are celebrating Chrigel Maurer’s X-Alps 2009 victory and Andy Aebi’s 2009 World Championship win. Take advantage of your own chance to win in our competition. Win your new paraglider! It’s as easy as this: to take part in our…
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Advance paragliders in the West Country 