My route from flying powered aircraft to Gliding I began my flying career fresh out of Uni and for the next 24 years I spent my time flying A-6’s and F/A-18’s from aircraft carriers, accumulating several thousand hours and over a thousand carrier arrested landings. After my first retirement, I moved on to fly cargo…
Taking up gliding at the age of 52 after 20+ years of Paragliding I developed an interest in flying model aircraft at an early age. I suppose this is what led me on to joining the Hang Gliding Club at Swansea University and my first taste of actually flying. After Uni, while in the Pennines…
Thursday’s weather didn’t appear any different from the weather we’ve been having for some time now except that there was a subtle difference in the air mass and the fact that the general flow was from the NW and not the east. RASP was forecasting a good day with possibly some spreadout but with the…
Congratulations to Barry Gwynnett on his re-solo in K13 on Tuesday this week. Well done Barry! Good luck too with your Team Raven displays in Austria, Slovenia and Croatia this weekend!
A very good forecast had at least 10 of us interested in some more XC’s but the days started rather differently than we’d expected – high level cloud and quite a bit of lowish cu’s floating around looking like it would quickly over develop so enthusiasm waned somewhat as the morning went on. Geoff King…
Forecast wind was 050/20 and we could see the primary and wave gap developing immediately in the lee of the Black Mountains. Significant cloud cover early on and so it was a late start… Martin Watt and I took the first launch in CKV at 14:02. Straight into the wave after release at only 1,200′ AAL.…
If you look at the national ladder there are only 3 flights for today, so far, and all of them are from BMGC!! Me and Mike T did a 165km flight to Long Mynd, Sennybridge and back while Mike Ashton collected some local turn points. Why other clubs weren’t out and about mystifies me, the…
I was told, or was it ordered, by TC to do a report for today’s flying! Well perhaps if I just say it was possibly the best conditions that I’ve ever seen in Wales since I started gliding then perhaps that’ll give you an idea of how good it was. Cloudbase went up and up…
The Mynd event nearly didn’t happen, in the middle of last week the forecasts were not looking promising for the weekend. But, luckily, Mark Sanders – the Mynd Comp Director – held his nerve and we had a great weekend. Team Tal traveled up a day early to get re-acquainted with the winch. We had…