… well,spring anyway; it’s mayday. So called because summer doesn’t come in smoothly, but springs to and fro between extremes. Today we...

A day that had everyone going back to their cars to find more layers. The forecast clear sky for the start of the day did not...

A day that was forecast to go either way went the wrong way… Tha’ts not to say things didn’t get fun (climbs up the edges of cbs) nor...

A day when the DI couldn’t win with picking ends. What little wind there was came from the east sometime with a bit of north sometimes...

Cracking little flight; Rivar- Lyneham- Abingdon Bridge and back.

Looking at the top cover and change in conditions from Saturday you would have been forgiven for thinking that Sunday was not going to...

With miserable March disappearing over the horizon Saturday morning dawned promising a  change in fortunes and the good soaring...

The Easter weekend rescued March from being our worst month in 6 years (my stats don’t go back further than that). It was narrowly...

After a couple of good days we weren’t expecting too much but the Lasham weather guru had forecast thermals by 10:00 BST. With 8/8 cover...

After a string of damp weekends the forecast for the Easter weekend was dry at last. Everyone was complaining that it was bitterly cold,...

Saturday turned out to be a bit of a mixed bag. Most of the 28 flights were less than 10 mins but if you were fortunate to launch at the...

PAH – another non-flying day

3 weeks of no flying activity must be some kind of a record but today the lean period came to an end. Too much east in the wind to get...

24 march 2013. Today Sir Ranulph Fiennes abandoned his attempt to be the first man to summit rivar hill, unsupported and without recourse...

Apart from working, which I seem to do a lot these days the weather has been poor and I missed the opportunity to fly on Thursday, great...

When the Met Office said “low cloud” that meant barely above the trees. Sufficient for us to derig JPC and get it into the workshop. I...

After the worst January on record* February was a lot kinder. Only 20 launches more than the average for the month but for flying time...

Report from Colin:- Despite early protestations that the ridge wasn’t really working, eleven people managed an average of 43 minutes...

A day the brass monkeys stayed at home but not some of our hardy members. Once the winch and caravan were in position it was a...

As forecast/promised it was sunny and thermic. Those that weren’t there – I told you so! Most of the day the thermals were quite broken...