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Wet Monday 26th October 2020

With a promising forecast a large contingent met up at the club today to fly, alas after heavy rain overnight the airfield was very soft but useable but the flying Gods were determined to keep us on the ground & the weather radar showed a continuous stream of heavy rain flowing off the Bristol Channel […]

John Hull

Wednesday 14th October at the Park. “A cool autumnal day” 😎. 14th October 2020

Good evening fellow aviators. A cool autumn day at the Park today, with crystal blue skies and glorious sunshine. The upper wind was approx. 20 – 30kts at 060 degrees. The soaring opportunities were modest, as is to be expected this time of year. But there was some thermal activity and streeting around the Park […]

Damien

Sunday 11th October – A flurry of activity and training training training 12th October 2020

A great day at The Park saw a good turnout on the field with private owners tempted to rig by the last vestiges of a mostly good weather day. Warm in the sun but noticeably chilly when the clouds obscured it! Lots of training and BI flights saw 2 Puchacz the K21 and the 2 […]

Chris Teasdale

Saturday 10th 10th October 2020

It’s been eight months since last instructing, so it was good to be back in GAM today, flying with Harriet and Dan on BI training. Windy, 20kts NW, but winch launches to 1900ft and thermals for a short period around midday with really quite good climbs. The wave looked enticing early on, but the air […]

Alastair

Wednesday, 7th October. 7th October 2020

John H. was first up to stress FUY and de-stress himself with an aerobatic air test. Duly passed, it was returned to the hangar for John to finish off a few extras before getting it back into service. Many thanks for all the work, John. The RASP wind was pretty accurate, 270/10~15 kts, which gave […]

PHILG

Tuesday, 29th September. 29th September 2020

From the forecasts, we expected a sunny start and a mostly bright day with some Cu. Indeed, travelling from west of Bristol airport, I was driving into the sun most of the way, until I got to Frome. Then heading south towards The Park, I could see cloud close to the hill tops. This was […]

PHILG

Saturday 26th September at the Park. A few pictures from today 😎. 26th September 2020

Good evening dear aviators. A few pictures from today at the park. I tried to add these images to Mikes Blog update for today in the “comments” section, but it didn’t quite work so I’ve added them here instead. Hope you enjoy them. Kind regards. Damien.

Damien

Winter draw(er)s on today 26th September 2020

A chilly, windy day, the coolest this autumn to date, provided some testing cross wind launch and landing conditions for those who’d put on their winter woolies, hats and gloves. Several single seater flights with pilots having no wish try again after getting battered by turbulence. Heroic Mike Jenks instructed in the Puch all day, […]

Mike Thorne

Saturday, 19th and Monday, 21st September 21st September 2020

Saturday, we had a brisk north-easterly, which gave some very good winch launches ( Nigel highest with 1900′, I think) but an unusually rough final approach over the fence. We welcomed back Amy W on a “30 day ticket”, to try the winch launch, having had an aerotow a couple of weeks ago. Amy has […]

PHILG

Sunday 13th September at the Park. “A generous serving of glorious sunshine today, topped off with a soupçon of both Ridge lift and Thermal lift” 😎. 13th September 2020

Good evening fellow aviators. Blue skies and glorious sunshine all day at the Park today, a real seasonal treat at this stage in the year, it felt more like a Sunday in July than one in September. Todays weather at the Park wasn’t quite right for Cross Country tasks, and locally the opportunities to soar […]

Damien