Arriving fashionably late on the airfield on Wednesday I was pleasantly surprised to see that the midweek crew almost had the field set...

This year hasn’t exactly been great for gliding, especially when one is busy at work and only get the weekends at best to utilise for...

Its not often that there’s a blog entry about our summertime weeknight activities… Most of the time a slick crew of members turns out to...

So this is summer? That would explain why the weather prevented us from flying the previous Wednesday and weekend. This Wednesday...

The weather guru wasnt sure and had us all confused over what advection was – its simple really Anyway despite that we went flying using...

What the forecasters promised the weather failed to deliver but it was good to see the sun (even if the wind was surprisingly cold). The...

What a glorious weekend; the gliders were out in force and so were the dandelions and with a high cloud base there was plenty of flying...

I suppose it is not very often that we get 3 consecutive days of flying on a bank holiday weekend but this time we did. The southerly...

My task was to The Mynd (a great gliding club on top of a huge mound of Shropshire earth) and back. Off the wire and straight into a...

Another Bank Holiday with good weather – the weather system really does seem to have broken down. I arrived at the airfield at 9:00 to...

I wasn’t able to join “the boys” this week but it wasn’t much of a soaring day. From looking at the logs I see that Paul P early on (2nd...

..Phil the Parachute Packer (how did Pete miss this alliteration opportunity) appeared after flying to make sure we know how to put on...

Saturday started bright and ended bright. In the middle it was less bright. During the less bright part it was occasionally brighter than...

Saturday witnessed a flock of swallows investigating the innards of the vehicle container – curious we thought. Could this be because of...

Good call from Colin to move Wednesday to Thursday. Unfortunately, it meant I was not able to be there so I’m just reporting from what...

Well we are all now back from our week at Sutton Bank and I’m sure a great time was had by all. We are always at the mercy of the...

Well what can I say! The reason for a lack of a report is simply down to the fact that we have been getting rather a lot of flying in...

It was sunny for a start with those fluffy white things in the sky! Whilst I set a task that seemed to be all about Oxford, 323km in...

Since joining the syndicate Richard has become rather possessive when it’s his turn to fly.

So today I told the rest of the Compette that my one objective for the day was not to get lower than 700′ above Shalbourne which is...