With the promise of a northerly wind and a the end to overcast sky Saturday offered the prospect of some ridge flying. With three club...

Ah yes, E team day; and the weather didn’t quite do as promised but it wasn’t far off. I drove up to the field through dense fog all the...

“If this is winter flying, bring it on” summed up the flying for the fortunate few who turned up. Someone else said “return of the...

Hive of activity in the morning with club gliders being dragged to the far end of the field and 4 private glider being rigged. Clear...

First flying day of the club’s new year. We weren’t able to match the eternity that is 22 minutes but 7 (of the 21 flights) did make it...

I was vainly looking to see if I had a IGC ranking this year. (Of course I don’t). But came across this: http://igcrankings.fai.org/index...

Just to add to Phil’s observation’s; I pulled off in cloud, just able to see the ground at 1650 feet, put the nose forward to clear the...

With a brisk SW wind the only thing stopping us from getting high launches was the cloud base which stubbornly lurked at around 1600ft. ...

An exceptional day for the back-end of September with climb rates of 6+ knots reported up to 3,700′ (QFE). Just a pity there were so few...

It seams some pilots have a serious tea habit that is affecting their gliding. As DCFI I feel duty bound to offer a solution… It even...

After leaving a good energy line to turn Devizes we looked back towards Rivar only to see that the area of reasonable looking clouds we...

Question: What does this http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?daddr=RAF+Upavon and this, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mug_of_Tea.JPG plus...

Selvam took full use of the available instructor capacity but somehow mostly failed to reach the top of the wire which was a shame as it...

Ken in a perfect field, landing uphill, into wind and a spectacular view of the Alton Barnes white horse to enjoy while Jim and I popped...

What a great day! Despite an almost promising sky it was not really a great day for flying XC so most of us made do by staying within...

Sunny day with a light southerly and some pretty clouds but the only person able to manage more than 13 minutes was Ken R with 58 minutes...

North wind and enough of it to hold the promise of ridge flying but the thermals messed that up. And what thermals – small and rough. ...

Well, I wasn’t on duty today, and so it didn’t rain. Note that wasn’t me who set up the rota that put E team on Bank Holiday Monday, a...

Typical Bank Holiday weather resulted in flying only on Sunday of the long weekend. The sunny Sunday did bring out the visitors looking...

OK so got a bit out of order with the blog entries. One of those days where the duty instructor will just have to accept ends will be...