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pdinham
Dec 6, 20101 min read
Sunday 5th December
Surprisingly after all the adverse weather we have had over the last few days it was a good day for flying. All in all we managed to get...
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pdinham
Nov 28, 20101 min read
Sunday 28th November
Decidedly nippy but none of the snow covering other parts of the UK. A few “I flew the Helm” woolly hats on show and Rod H reported a...
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pdinham
Nov 22, 20101 min read
Sat 20th November
Fog clearing to low rain and drizzle = scrub!
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pdinham
Nov 14, 20101 min read
Saturday 13th November
The appearance of DI Tim R wearing a jacket confirmed that Winter has definitely arrived. Mind it wasn’t fastened and he was just...
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pdinham
Nov 12, 20101 min read
Saturday 6th November
After the initial rain cleared we took adavantage of the dryer conditions to get some flying in. Ok so it wasn’t great soaring weather...
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pdinham
Oct 31, 20102 min read
Saturday 30th October
Clear skies, a good turnout – the day looked set to be a good one. Then the pre-halloween spell kicked in. Pajero had to be helped out...
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pdinham
Oct 31, 20101 min read
Halloween – Sunday 31 Oct…spooky…
The undead (now then, now then!) waiting tirelessly for soarable weather? Zombie ab initios marching inexorably towards the duty...
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pdinham
Oct 28, 20101 min read
Soaring Sunday 24th October – in thermal!
Again a lovely autumn weekend day with thermals and a light northerly wind. A quiet start suggested sunday lie-ins but the launch point...
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pdinham
Oct 23, 20101 min read
Wed 20 Oct
Another splendid day for October. No private owners rigged, but the four club aircraft were kept busy, amassing over 11hrs between them...
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pdinham
Oct 20, 20101 min read
Sunday 17th – cold at 4000′
It was great to find two new members at the launch point as we walked the gliders down. We’d thought that we’d only need one two-seater...
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pdinham
Oct 20, 20101 min read
Visit to Parham Saturday 16th
After our little trip to Eden didn’t quite go to plan we thought we would finish the week off with a day trip to Parham. A 1000ft aerotow...
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pdinham
Oct 20, 20101 min read
Sunday 17th October
A very pleasant day with little cumulus around and thermals to cloudbase at 4000ft. Not bad for an autumn day.
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pdinham
Oct 17, 20101 min read
Saturday 16th October
After the early morning low cloud cleared we were hopeful for some ridge action, alas the ridge was too westerly and too slight for the...
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pdinham
Oct 14, 20101 min read
Wednessday 13 October
Slow start with no one desperate to get launched. Steve Barber did the decent thing and offered to take the first launch and we held a...
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pdinham
Oct 3, 20101 min read
Saturday 1st October
With Saturday being a reasonable day sandwiched between very wet days (and the weekend being declared a 1 day weekend) we’d expected a...
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pdinham
Oct 3, 20101 min read
Thursday 30th – 100 year old birthday boy takes to the skies!
Wednesday slipped a day this week because of the somewhat wet real Wednesday. I was able to take my neighbour for a Trial Lesson for his...
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pdinham
Oct 3, 20101 min read
Sunday 26th – Ridge day!
The few that turned up enjoyed playing on the ridge trying to distinguish between ridge and thermal lift. It was good to welcome a...
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pdinham
Sep 26, 20101 min read
Sat 25th September
Well its Autumn. But that ment we all enjoyed the Autumn thermals. The northly wind teased on the ridge but it was the thermals that kept...
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pdinham
Sep 21, 20102 min read
Sat 18 Sep – a good day! (Well, brilliant actually)
The forecast was for good soaring conditions even by summer standards, and here we are well into September. What’s more, it delivered...
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pdinham
Sep 20, 20101 min read
Saturday 18th
After turning SHM the run back to Frome was interesting! The lift we had left to run to the TP had done a runner and made us both really...
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