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pdinham
Sep 24, 20142 min read
Wednesday 24th
Colin B had sent out an email telling folks not to be put off by the rain in the morning as soaring would follow – and soaring there was...
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pdinham
Sep 23, 20141 min read
Sunday 21st
What a difference a change of air overnight makes. Saturday those who turned played the “is that a pylon I can see” game through the...
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pdinham
Sep 21, 20141 min read
Radio Telephony Course
Just in case the Blog gets to places that Yahoo Groups does not reach. The first session of the FRTO Licence course starts on Wednesday...
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pdinham
Sep 18, 20141 min read
Wednesday 17th
Third Wednesday in a row where we’ve been “blessed” with an easterly crosswind. Only difference this time was the touch of northerly and...
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pdinham
Sep 18, 20141 min read
Sunday 14th
Rob S had organised a photography group to fly alongside normal club operations and the following note was received from the group’s...
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pdinham
Sep 11, 20142 min read
Wednesday 10th
Another Wednesday, another day with a 90 degree cross wind from the east. This time Colin had promised soaring and soaring we got. What...
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pdinham
Sep 9, 20141 min read
Sunday 7th September 2014
Not what you would call a great soaring day but certainly flyable and very well attended. I know I make a lot of noise about the lack of...
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pdinham
Sep 8, 20141 min read
Special blog header
for one day only to commemorate all Colin’s and others hard work on manufacturing the pitched trailer cover and ensuring we have a...
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pdinham
Sep 3, 20141 min read
Wednesday 3rd
A slow start, even for a Wednesday, yielded some extended flights for those patient enough to wait for the morning mist to clear....
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pdinham
Sep 2, 20141 min read
Saturday 30th
Another day with a very modest turnout. The stiff 90 degree cross-wind and the forecast of a better day on Sunday probably explained why...
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pdinham
Sep 2, 20141 min read
Wednesday 27th
Not exactly a promising day with complete cloud cover and a south-easterly. Not many folks in attendance with some of the regulars at...
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pdinham
Sep 1, 20142 min read
Sunday 31st August
Good soaring conditions along with a light WNW wind gave us plenty of extended flights and produced many in excess of an hour. Chris B in...
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pdinham
Aug 26, 20142 min read
Saved by the Comps – a Rather Bendy 100K
As recounted in Chris’s ribald tale, Saturday met promised much but delivered somewhat less. I launched just before Phil and Carol and...
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pdinham
Aug 26, 20141 min read
Sutton Bank Slingsby week
from http://www.ygc.co.uk/wordpress/ Sunday 24th. A light WNW’ly that slowly backed into the WSW as a ridge of high pressure moved in...
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pdinham
Aug 25, 20141 min read
I was tim who wasnt steve whilst nigel was peter (sunday 24th august)
I think everyone else who turned up was themselves and pretty much every flight stuck apart from the first 2 and Nigel in the K8, but no...
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pdinham
Aug 20, 20142 min read
Heading Westerly in a Westerly…Lambourn, Melksham and back.
Having watched Carol & Phil landing back, reciprocal, having found a world of sink on their short foray I wondered at Pete’s decision to...
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pdinham
Aug 18, 20141 min read
Task week scores
I have finally managed to devise a scoring system: 24, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 to the top pilots on each day. days are sorted on...
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pdinham
Aug 17, 20142 min read
Saturday 16th – Last Day of Task Week
Or should that be “2nd day of Task Week”? A week passed since the first day but this was only the second one suitable for setting a task....
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pdinham
Aug 15, 20141 min read
Changing a trailer light bulb EASA style
One quality control supervisor, one aircraft maintenance consultant, one manufacturing engineer, one training specialist, one fitter, one...
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