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pdinham
Sep 16, 20161 min read
Wednesday 14th September – So low
“So low” at the start of the day as cloud base got lower; “solo” at the end of the day. The day started with an easterly and sunshine...
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pdinham
Sep 12, 20161 min read
Sunday 11th September
A thoroughly enjoyable day yesterday as we managed to get in 53 flights totalling over 32 hours! Many private gliders were rigged and...
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pdinham
Sep 9, 20161 min read
Wednesday 7th September
The good bits – lots of launches, not a westerly, lots of cake. The bad bits – bugger all lift. If only Thursday had come a day early....
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pdinham
Sep 5, 20161 min read
Sunday 4th September
I did get accused of bringing Wednesday’s westerly’s to a Sunday. At least I didn’t bring the rain as Richard had done the day before. ...
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pdinham
Sep 2, 20162 min read
Wednesday 31st August
Last day of the flying week and the 3 rigged private gliders fettled and packed away – that’s how good it looked. Paul B was first solo...
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pdinham
Aug 31, 20161 min read
How to get grounded…
…fly over the DCFI’s workplace at lunchtime! – Steve!!!
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pdinham
Aug 30, 20161 min read
Tuesday 30th August
Another good day at Rivar. By late morning the blue was replaced with fluffy white clouds and some great climbs were on offer. With...
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pdinham
Aug 30, 20161 min read
Bank holiday monday
Was glorious We flew – lots! Special thanks to Nigel and Richard for flying the numerous Trial lessons and Ken for winching all day....
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pdinham
Aug 27, 20161 min read
Friday 26th August
Nice day’s flying at the club today, only 16 launches but some note worthy achievements. After the necessary check flights both Alan...
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pdinham
Aug 18, 20162 min read
Wednesday 17th August
I was reminded that there are things in life (well, flying from Rivar Hill) worse than westerly’s – easterly’s! The forecasts I had seen...
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pdinham
Aug 15, 20161 min read
Saturday 13th August
Back to “normal” – tricky westerly. It was a day of two, contrasting, halves. 8/8 cloud cover in the morning with cloud base varying...
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pdinham
Aug 14, 20162 min read
Wednesday 10th August
Amazing – not a westerly. Well, not at first. A gentle northerly, with a touch of west, backing to a light westerly by late...
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pdinham
Aug 13, 20161 min read
august 10th.2016 flying report
The day looked promising and the first flight departed at 11.15 am.The caravan was stocked with a plethora of edible goodies namely...
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pdinham
Aug 8, 20161 min read
Sunday 7th August
I guess most members had looked at the forecast winds and gave it a miss. Members were pretty thin on the ground but the TLs just kept...
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pdinham
Aug 8, 20161 min read
6th August
After working out which end to fly from (and it wasn’t the one I chose first, sorry about that) we settled into a good thermic day with...
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pdinham
Aug 4, 20161 min read
Wednesday 3rd August
At last, we broke the link between days I fly and westerly’s (although it did veer westerly as the day progressed). With the modest...
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pdinham
Aug 1, 20161 min read
The last weekend of July
Saturday showed the benefit of looking at forecasts and not simply peeling back the curtain, cracking an eyelid towards the heavens and...
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pdinham
Jul 29, 20162 min read
Lights, camera, action (again)
With 8/8ths low cover and drizzle and, yet again, another westerly the prospects for flying did not look good. This was reflected in the...
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pdinham
Jul 28, 20161 min read
shalbourne soaring-flying report-saturday 23rd july
the day promised to be soarable and so it turned out.when I arrived on site four s.u.g.c. members had turned up and there were four trial...
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pdinham
Jul 27, 20161 min read
Wednesday 20th July
Another July day and yet another cross-wind and mainly circuits. Early on (launches 3 and 4) Paul P & Rob J in one K13 and Tony P and...
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