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pdinham
Nov 1, 20151 min read
28th Footnote
Colin’s post mentioned “Bob’s brief sojourn ‘on top’” so here’s one of the photo’s from Bob (spot the halo). Cloudbase at 700′ Bob...
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pdinham
Oct 30, 20151 min read
Wednesday 28th October
A beautiful last Wednesday in October – almost shirt sleeves weather – with the entire club fleet online and no less than four ...
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pdinham
Oct 22, 20152 min read
Tuesday 20th October
What a glorious day – sunshine, warmth, thermals, superior chocolate brownies and good companions – what more could one ask for? When...
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pdinham
Oct 20, 20151 min read
shalbourne soaring 20th.oct 2015
What a cracking late october day for gliding. Stephen o decided to bring mid week flying forward a day because wednesdays forecast was...
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pdinham
Oct 18, 20151 min read
Saturday 17th Ridge – was working!
With the forecasted NE wind Carol and I felt the need to rig the Janus to see if the ridge was working and with only about 10-12 knots at...
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pdinham
Oct 16, 20151 min read
Wednesday 14th October
With the wind from the north (with just a touch of east) the favourite place proved to be on the south side of the launch caravan –...
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pdinham
Oct 11, 20151 min read
Saturday 10th
The grey sky looked unwelcoming, with low clouds scudding across an amorphous vault in the brisk east wind. So those present set to, ever...
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pdinham
Oct 9, 20151 min read
Thursday 8th October
Arriving at the club in the sunshine proved it was a good move slipping Wednesday a day. However, first 3 launches proved it wasn’t as...
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pdinham
Oct 9, 20151 min read
Portmoak update
Today is our last day before trailing back down to shalbourne tomorrow. Out of the 9 possible flying days we flew on 6 of them. Great...
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pdinham
Oct 7, 20151 min read
Indian Summer Weekend
As nobody who was flying on the weekend of 26/27 September has posted anything about the day I thought something should be said about an...
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pdinham
Oct 4, 20151 min read
Golden October!
With patches of mid morning blue sky peeking through the mist and the forecasters promise of blue thermals to 3000 ft later in the day, a...
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pdinham
Oct 1, 20151 min read
Wednesday blues?
Maybe small beer for some, but it beats stripping down winches:-)
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pdinham
Sep 25, 20151 min read
First day of Autumn
A pleasant start to the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness – even if the blackberries on the airfield had past their best. There...
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pdinham
Sep 25, 20151 min read
Make your mind up
3 days before the official start of Autumn we seem to have different opinions of which season we were in. James still in Summer mode but...
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pdinham
Sep 21, 20151 min read
Sunday 20th September
Late in the morning the mist eventually cleared and cloudbase rose enough for flying to commence. If you were lucky there was soaring to...
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pdinham
Sep 14, 20151 min read
Sun 13th – deceptively good
It turned out to be one of those rare days with thermals to 3000ft into widespread cumulus under a slate grey overcast. We managed to...
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pdinham
Sep 13, 20151 min read
Wednesday 9th
Peter E turned up first thing with welder at the ready to fix the kink in the guard rail on one of the winch drums. Having restored the...
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pdinham
Sep 12, 20151 min read
Saturday 12th.September
Due to other commitments I did not arrive on site until around 11.30.The field had been set up and the Puchasz was sitting by the caravan...
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pdinham
Sep 9, 20151 min read
Sunday 6th September
What a cracking day for September. The day looked promising and shock waves went around the airfield when Alan P said it was going to be...
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