Tag: xc
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Mission: Impossible
It’s the afternoon of Friday 27th May and my grown-up daughter and some of her friends are taking over our house in Bath for the weekend, so Lisa and I have found ourselves temporarily homeless! Well, not that homeless fortunately as Lisa’s driving down to Ringstead (near Weymouth) in our campervan, and I’m making my…
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Exorcising the demons…
Having screwed up on the first decent XC day of the year (14th March at Combe) and having missed out on big Saturday (6th April) due to family commitments, I was keen to make the most of a good forecast on Friday 19th April. For a few days before, RASP had been looking epic especially…
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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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BIG Saturday!
Amongst the eighty one flights totalling 6,107km logged on Saturday 12th May, which included twenty three flights of over 100km and one of 243km (congratulations Kai!), my 127km from Leckhampton (11th furthest on the day, and 2nd furthest from the hill) fades into insignificance slightly, however for me it was a very significant flight, in…
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A challenging flight from the Malverns
It’s Saturday 10th April and the forecast is for high pressure with light easterlies. Nick, Mike and I head up to the Malverns together and are pleased that there’s a bit more wind on the hill than we were expecting. There’s tons of people there and more turning up all the time as it’s a…
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Another trip to the coast!
After what seems like a very long and cold winter the UK XC season seems to be under way big time after a great day on Saturday 13th March. With the wind forecast to be NWly, Nick, Rob, Ben and I decided to head to Batcombe hoping to fly to Swanage! However the wind was…
Advance paragliders in the West Country 