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Wednesday 21st August. “Terrific local soaring, but more challenging for Cross Country”. 21st August 2019

Good evening fellow aviators. It was a good forecast for today, and there was some terrific local soaring from very early in the day, right through to the very last flight of the day. By the time the Gliders and launch point were prepared and ready, the sky was already showing promise. 2 Club Puchacz, […]

Damien

Didcot today, minus last three cooling towers. 20th August 2019

Martin, can you see your field?

PHILG

Tuesday 20th August. “Good soaring day 🙂”. 20th August 2019

Good evening fellow aviators. A good forecast preceded a good days soaring from the Park today. A steady 10 -15 kt WNW wind was present throughout the day, but glorious sunshine persisted and the temperatures remained warm and comfortable all day. The Cross Country Pilots were out in force, tackling a variety of tasks, and […]

Damien

Monday 19th August. “Soaring between the showers”. 19th August 2019

Good evening fellow aviators. After consulting with the oracle (RASP 😉), we knew today wouldn’t be a strong soaring day, but sometimes its just nice to get off the ground, even for just a few minutes. For those pilots wanting instruction, Mike J was on hand, and was kept busy all day training. Showers were […]

Damien

Saturday 17th August. “A day at the Park, Streets ahead of a day spent anywhere else 😉” (Updated version). 17th August 2019

(Good afternoon fellow aviators, I have updated Saturdays blog with a motor glider flight made by John H. I didn’t hear about this flight until Sunday morning, but it was well worth a mention in the blog, so I have included it below). Good evening fellow aviators. RASP predicted workable local lift at the Park […]

Damien

Monday 12th August 13th August 2019

Many thanks to Alistair for test flying our new syndicate DG101 Elan (Hugh, Bill and myself) and subsequent briefing. Hugh then taking an aerotow and Bill a winch launch, with excellent local soaring conditions (I need to eat some more doughnuts, being a little too close for comfort to the minimum weight – more lead […]

chrischappell

Monday 12th August 12th August 2019

After a showery start it turned into a fabulous afternoon, which was exactly what was needed for Bill and Hugh to convert to their new aircraft.

Alastair

Sunday, 11th August 11th August 2019

We were thin on the ground, with only two booked pupils because of a strong wind forecast, with the likelihood of an early bath ( around 1400, when the occluded front was due to dampen our spirits). With that scenario, we could only manage two Puchacz on the field and we switched Roy C to […]

PHILG

Wednesday 7th August “Dodging the showers” 8th August 2019

Despite numerous showers during the day, members enjoyed a day of two seater training, check flights, solo flights, intrepid thermal hunting and plenty of cups of tea, briefings and social “chit chat” in the caravan between the “wet stuff” falling from the sky. […]

chrischappell

Alan Milne’s funeral. 30th July 2019

Past Instructor and CFI Alan Milne died 2 weeks ago. Six of us went to his funeral in Poole today, lead by Vice President Dick Yerburgh. Alan had a distinguished past in Gliding having started in the 1960s at Portmoak in his native Scotland. He was Chairman of that club at one time, before moving […]

Mike Thorne