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pdinham
Apr 21, 20151 min read
Saturday 18th
With a moderate Easterly breeze and blue skies the thermals got going quite early. In fact during my weather check flight I had to...
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pdinham
Apr 16, 20151 min read
Lights, Camera, Action!
The sun came out to welcome Bert back to the airfield – but this time with a TV crew accompanying him. In the middle of April we got a...
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pdinham
Apr 13, 20151 min read
Post frontal – 11th April
On Friday I wrote of the prospects for Saturday, “Might be a little damp over cornflakes, but have a big bowl cos you could be airborne a...
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pdinham
Apr 9, 20152 min read
Wednesday 8th April
After lots of flying on Easter Saturday, Sunday and Monday I did think that we may be shorthanded on Wednesday – but, no, not at all. In...
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pdinham
Apr 7, 20151 min read
Easter Monday – Cracking Day
What’s happening – a bank holiday weekend and we get lots of flying on 3 of the 4 days. Monday, though, was the best day for flying with...
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pdinham
Apr 6, 20151 min read
Sunday 5th April- Easter Day
Sunday turned out to very busy day what with pre-solo training, check flights and annual checks. Although flight times were noticeably...
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pdinham
Apr 6, 20151 min read
Saturday 4th April -Ridge day!
As Colin predicted Saturday indeed turned out to be a ridge day and many ridge flights were flown. With the good headwind launch heights...
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pdinham
Mar 29, 20151 min read
Spring? What Spring?
Below was the view from the club house door (I preferred not to go outside) on Sunday 29th March Inside the clubhouse though it was warm...
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pdinham
Mar 25, 20151 min read
Wednesday 25th
The prospect of a reasonable day brought out the Wednesday boys out in force. About a third of the launches resulted in extended flights...
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pdinham
Mar 23, 20151 min read
Did someone say “pub?!”
Did someone say “pub?!” yes they did, and it was Jeremy, and it was because Jeremy had just gone solo!!! (and we had put the toys away...
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pdinham
Mar 18, 20151 min read
Murky Wednesday
Toys all out and folks ready to fly but it wasn’t until almost midday that we threw Bob B into the air to see if he could find his way...
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pdinham
Mar 14, 20152 min read
Saturday 14th March…..Thermal and Ridge day and bung pulling day at Shalbourne
Today was one of those days where the weather couldn’t decide if it wanted to be a thermic day or a ridge day but that didn’t deter Steve...
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pdinham
Mar 8, 20151 min read
Wednesday 4th March
The sky looked OK but the lively cross-wind didn’t bode well but it that’s not enough to keep the “Wednesday boys” on the ground. On the...
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pdinham
Mar 8, 20151 min read
Christmas Eve
I know, I know – that was ages go. I’ve been somewhat tardy of moving over from the old blog site to our new all-singing-all-dancing...
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pdinham
Feb 16, 20151 min read
Sunday 15th Feb
We determined our best bet was to wait and see if cloudbase lowered sufficiently for the airfield to poke out the top and allow flying to...
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pdinham
Feb 8, 20151 min read
We’re back!
The rebuilt winch distinguished itself with faultless launches all day and Rodney, doing most of the driving, made sure we all got our...
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pdinham
Feb 2, 20151 min read
Sunday 1st Feb- Another ridge day!
Just to show that the weather doesn’t always take note of the forecast! I must admit that on Saturday night I felt that flying yesterday...
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pdinham
Jan 28, 20151 min read
Saturday 24th Jan-Ridge Day !!!
With a moderate NW wind Carol and I went off to fly the ridge near Westbury. Following a 1500ft winch launch we set off on track just to...
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pdinham
Jan 18, 20151 min read
Saturday 17th Jan
Today was the first day that we flew JMX at Keevil and as we arrived the sleet we had driven through stopped and we were left with...
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pdinham
Jan 12, 20152 min read
Interclub 2015 (Part 2)
Interclub 2015 Whats all the fuss? Most of you will have either heard, or participated in an Interclub in the past, some of you may not....
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