tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306465292009-07-12T18:58:07.608ZWhere have you flown? and when?TVHGC Flying DIarynoreply@blogger.comBlogger517125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30646529.post-70786463104072561552009-07-11T12:35:00.003Z2009-07-11T23:22:14.015Z

Name :: Cloudbase - Fi Email :: fiona _at_ cloudbaseparagliding.com Date :: 10 / 07 / 2009 Direction :: West Comments :: Cloudbase went with 2 students plus ChrisW crammed in the truck and had a fabulous day with all of us flying and Marcus getting 2 perfect top landings to qualify for his CP (very well done!). Both Nik and Marcus showed off impeccable ground handling & launching and

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Name :: Al Wilson Email :: al _at_ mrog.co.uk Date :: 10 / 07 / 2009 Direction :: West Comments :: We got there too late - early strong wind and reasonable climbs turned to to light wind and crap thermals, followed by strong wsw wind and crap thermals as the front came in. A few got away around 11. Pictures :: XC League :: TVHGC :: National

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Name :: Steve Newcombe Email :: _at_ Date :: 10 / 07 / 2009 Direction :: West Comments :: Site is 13 miles WSW of Salisbury & takes due west. Rough in the air & not much lift. Sun came out & gave rough, punchy thermals. Messed up decent XC opportunity by pushing forward again from a climb to big Cu just in front of hill, which gave nothing. Then it quickly clouded over, wind picked

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Name :: Fi Burgess Email :: _at_ Date :: 04 / 07 / 2009 Direction :: South Comments :: 3 of us made an early call and arrived at 9am. Although it was strong it didn't work initially, then we had better height until about 10.30 when it got very strong. More hopefuls arrived, but no hope. We had hoped to get away but there was too much cloud cover and the thermals broke up about 400

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Name :: Malcolm Beard Email :: highviz _at_ smartemail.co.uk Date :: 05 / 07 / 2009 Direction :: South Comments :: Only three HG's flying at Milk today. Overdevelopment broke up mid afternoon to give nice cumulus and a fair bit of sunshine. Took off from the south face and jumped forward onto the white horse,where cloudbase was about 3000ft. Had fun flying over the crop circles and

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Name :: Bob Johnston Email :: _at_ Date :: 28 / 06 / 2009 Direction :: South Comments :: I thought a xc was a sure thing given how hot the day was going to get but on getting closer to the hill top cover rolled in and never cleared all day, so although a hot day next to no sun on the ground and little wind. got about a hour in including one climb out to 1000 above but didn't leave

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Replying to Al's post, at last it was brilliant to see a good Combe flying day, although in my first BCC I was disappointed not to get away. I'm not sure anyone got away over the back which made the hill very busy indeed; you really needed 360 degree vision to stay safe! There were thermals all over the place but as it was lightish breeze it was sometimes hard to stay up and lots were

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I was in Swindon and suddenly thought it looked promising so I hurtled over to Combe about 6 with Lee Bligh and just the two of us flew until 8.30pm. It was still lightly thermic and soarable with beautiful sunset views, well worth the effort! Mrs Moose

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orecast looked promising and we headed up enthusiastically with Lee Bligh, Chris Williams, Mike Long, Ian Pepper and new CP student David Ebbs (to watch us, not to fly), but on the way there were some formidable building clouds and sure enough, it was easterly but very strong and rough looking so we did the traditional parawaiting-thing all afternoon. First highlight was an RAF Tornado

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BCC at Combe on Sunday, and the hill was thronged with eager pilots from across the South of England. Conditions were nicely soarable allowing plenty of separation for the most part, though as the morning went on the sky filled in and the lift dropped off a bit. Max height gained was about 1500' ato.Some of the best thermals were right along the ridge to the west, and some intrepid pilots made

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After a night at Stonehenge, waiting for the sun to fail to appear, it was a late start for me, arriving at Liddington at 4ish where 4 or 5 wings were scratching about rather unconvincingly. I spoke to Fi, who was at Combe Gibbet with the Cloudbase team demoing the new Team 5 wings, but her report of crowds, collisions and not much lift persuaded me to join the scratchers. Maybe I need to change

Richard barberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13002404575957679141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30646529.post-29764099287692089552009-06-16T20:10:00.001Z2009-06-16T20:10:39.297Z

Here's Dan having some fun.

Reechhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12607568820619844873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30646529.post-65496817921753531792009-06-15T08:40:00.002Z2009-06-15T08:58:55.529Z

I arrived on the hill with an hour's grace as had to get home for lunch and was running a little short of credits as had had a good flight on Saturday, my plan was to use the light winds to try to fly home to Kintbury.Some of the usual suspects were about and there was a generally jovial mood on the hill. I got myself ready pretty quickly and almost as soon as I was ready a nice cycle came

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First aerotow of the season from Clench Common. All the usual suspects were out, for what looked to be a great day. Provisional plan was to fly to Sparsholt (nr Wantage), then Newbury and back. I got the third tow of the day and released at 1500ft into a weak climb, with Justin and Craig overhead. Justin went exploring and got nothing, while Craig and I stayed with it to close to base.

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Arrived about 11.00am to find no-one flying, but a few PG's sat around. One other HG there (Craig). By the time we had rigged the wind had dropped and PG's were having a few short flights. Initially the cycles were very short lived and both mine and Craig's first flights were brief and ended with landings in front of the fence.By about 1.30 the cycles were starting to last a few minutes

Richard barberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13002404575957679141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30646529.post-28418742886931607762009-06-13T21:16:00.001Z2009-06-13T21:16:25.542Z

Pretty wizzo day. Lots of uppness, interesting air. A bit tiring with all the active piloting required to keep me wing over my head! Flew and flew, chatted a lot did a bit of coaching. Weird shaped thermals with a peculiar drift had me scratching my head trying to work it out! Even had a tip fold and my glider didn't fall to bits! Hoorah! Good time was had! Loads of vid to edit so will post it

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I was going to head up to the bpcup, but the weather wasn't looking too promising, so decided to fly from Milk Hill, intially the wind was a little too far off to the south for Milk Hill itself, but Wallace, myself and Ken all boated about and got some climbs, but definetely weren't getting away.I bit the bullet and tried to fly round to milk hill white horse and got drilled down before the fence

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I arrived at Monks at 10am, the wind was a touch off to the east and a little strong, but okay.I took a little time getting ready as I am not a huge fan of flying on my own, but once ready I popped the wing up and as it felt fairly solid, committed to the air.  After climbing up a little it became apparant that the air coming up the ridge was thermic and the true direction was much more off to

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Nant-e-MoelGPS Track -http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/205724 I got up early on the Saturday and did a final weather check which suggested high base and light winds, so jumped in the car headed to Abbergeveny. On the way, there were some well set wave bars, which was a little concerning, but as there wasn't any wind and blue skies I didn't worry.However, high cloud covered the sky

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Windless, inverted, hot day of idleness on the hill. Waited for the inversion to break but it didn't. A Talybont day really. Must make mental note..............

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A day in Wales. First at Nant Y Moel where the BCC had a few get away in the SW 10-12 wind. Was lumpy bumpy flying and a testing vertical landing to boot! The wind went too W so decamped to Fochriw which was a very floaty flight. All good!Reech

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Got away from work early so in the absnce of anything better to do I went flying! Got to Milk about 5pm and was all alone and the wind was a bit too strong. Was a bit surprised by the lack of optimistic people! Was joined by another (who's name escapes me!), phoned Fiona who was on her way! Waited about for the wind to drop, which it did and flew! All on my own for a bit 'till the wind had

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Interesting day. Went to Ebbw Vale where it was light and SE, a bit off, so went to Skirrid, cause it takes a SE only to find it E and light. After a bit of umming took off found a thermal! Thought about going with it, remembered I had the car keys! Bobbled about for a bit before going for the car. Returned to Ebbw Vale where we missed the flying window! Had a go at a take off and got royally

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Arrived at Whitewool at 12.30pm and whereas is had looked blown out all the way down the motorway, the wind was actually quite light but with thermals passing through. As this is a sensitive Sky Surfers site, checked with warden whether it was OK to fly and then had an hours fantastic flying in wonderful Hampshire countryside with stunning views right over to the Solent and Isle of Wight. Lots of

Richard barberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13002404575957679141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30646529.post-53027403571484083082009-05-10T12:59:00.001Z2009-05-10T13:00:18.362Z

Early start! Bit blowy, Ron flew his hangglider, I went to the White Horse. Bit off and light! Took off slope landed. Took off again and decided to go to Milk. Gotblown over the back in a gale! Waited for it to ease. Took off floated about for ages. Weird shaped thermals.... Landed let loads of people fly. Had a chat and took off for an evening float. Got caught out by my new gliders glide angle

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