Well the Lasham comp is now over. Some of the pilots flew 2 of the 9 days while us mortals flew only 1 day, yesterday. I got up early...

With the wet and blustery conditions of the last few days behind us Saturday was a refreshing change. We still had 15 to 20 knots of...

Sounds like a good day was had by many at Shalbourne yesterday; I was flying our syndicate Duo 620 in the Regionals A group – 328k down...

Pete and I have been at Lasham for the 2012 Regional Comp. Unfortunately it’s been wet, overcast and mostly non-flyable. Yesterday,...

With the Jubilee celebrations in full swing members attention must have been focused elsewhere but those who did come out to fly were...

Whilst at Sutton Bank Paul Prentice was signed off for Aerotowing……………here is the video of his first solo Aerotow.

It’s days like this that one wishes we had the option of (occasionally) taking an aerotow or turning the field through 90 degrees. With...

Report from Bob B:- Today (Saturday 26th May) produced a howling South-Easterly making it unwise to risk cables falling to the west....

Cross country flying is ok, well it’s better than ok, for me it’s great, pushing oneself to your own personal limits and getting across...

OK, so strictly speaking, Wednesday was not our first flying day. Sunday, Carol and Phil worked away at getting everyone site and/or...

I spoke to Phil this morning who said they’re all having a great time. The weather is a mixed bag but they’re hoping for an improvment...

from http://www.ygc.co.uk/wordpress/ Sarurday 19th. Rain in the morning and low cloud for the rest of the day kept the gliders in the...

ERIV 201145Z 010 10KT 9999 OVC007 10/08 Q1009 That’s METAR for rubbish!

Phil has asked me to add this to the blog. Apparently it was to sort out a small problem with the Puchacz, it was the smallest hammer in...

‘Vaguely Soarable’ is how Met God David Masson forecast the day, and indeed vaguely soarable is what it turned out to be. We did our...

So, everyone made a bee-line for Saturday. Some of us knew our glider would be occupied and went flying on the other day of the weekend...

After waiting for some decent weather we were finally rewarded with light northerlies on Saturday. RASP looked good; the met gave a good...

Also congrats to Jon for his 2hour xc endorsement leg. A busy day of soaring – nuff said. (originally posted by Pete. Re-ordered/posted...

Arrived at the club to find Janus, LS7 and LS3 rigged under a very grey sky – what did they know that I didn’t? The Janus was first out...

Bob said we’d be packed up by 1.30. We all agreed… At 5 we were looking up at Steve B in the K13 diminished by height to a mere speck. In...