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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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A Tour of the Brecon Beacons
Wow, for early October yesterday (Sunday 2nd) was pretty special – light winds, 4500’+ cloudbase, and some pretty reasonable thermals! After some initial communication confusion (mentioning no names, but not one of us :-)) five of us headed over to Wales in my car (Nick Smith, Tim Crozier-Cole, RJ Macaulay and Keiron ?) and made…
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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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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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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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Well, that turned out alright!
Thursday 5th May. It had been a funny old week – the week before I had been thinking that a last minute trip to Chamonix and Annecy might be on the cards, but that was before my flight from Liddington on Saturday (30th April), and as a consequence of that plan I had rearranged a conference…
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Finally some kms on the Omega X-Alps!
It’s been a month and a bit since I collected my Omega X-Alps in Thun at the Advance XC Serial Team Weekend, and since then I’ve only had two opportunities for XC flights, and on the first of those a couple of weeks ago (Sat 23rd April) I made a bad decision leaving the hill…
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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…
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Advance paragliders in the West Country 