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The Shadow Beneath Me
I'd only made it to Suffolk once this year and I was eager for one last trip there to see the team before the year ended..
11 Nov 2012
I'd only made it to Suffolk once this year and I was eager for one last trip there to see the team before the year ended..
11 Nov 2012
A Grand Day Out!
I skimmed through the edge of the thermal and gained a mental picture of where this illusive mass or rising air was. I cirlced around then pushed into it and found more reliable lift and started climbing, slowly getting higher and higher and drifting back over the Dyke...
29 Sep 2012
I skimmed through the edge of the thermal and gained a mental picture of where this illusive mass or rising air was. I cirlced around then pushed into it and found more reliable lift and started climbing, slowly getting higher and higher and drifting back over the Dyke...
29 Sep 2012
First XC on the Downs!
At 2,080 feet a.t.o, which looked to be cloud base the thermal dissipated and I set off in a south westerly direction. With my eyes focussed on the ground for potential landing options and the blue expanse of see in front, I passed over Woodingdean heading towards Brighton Marina...
22 Sep 2012
At 2,080 feet a.t.o, which looked to be cloud base the thermal dissipated and I set off in a south westerly direction. With my eyes focussed on the ground for potential landing options and the blue expanse of see in front, I passed over Woodingdean heading towards Brighton Marina...
22 Sep 2012
Aerotow at Plumpton
As before the glider tended to float up behind the tug, but as my skill and technique began to improve, I handled it better than I had previously…
08 Sep 2012
As before the glider tended to float up behind the tug, but as my skill and technique began to improve, I handled it better than I had previously…
08 Sep 2012
Back to Aerotow
I was unusually low behind the tug and was jostled about all over the place. I was just about to release when tug pilot signalled me to do so - I assumed he also had a difficult time towing me…
22 Jul 2012
I was unusually low behind the tug and was jostled about all over the place. I was just about to release when tug pilot signalled me to do so - I assumed he also had a difficult time towing me…
22 Jul 2012
Scratching to Truleigh Hill
Once at Truleigh Hill I considered myself to be lucky that I had the whole airspace here to myself. It was at that point it dawned on me that there might be a good reason why no-one else flew to Truleigh…
22 May 2012
Once at Truleigh Hill I considered myself to be lucky that I had the whole airspace here to myself. It was at that point it dawned on me that there might be a good reason why no-one else flew to Truleigh…
22 May 2012
Mooove Out The Way
I had never slalomed my hang glider before, and after I negotiated my way around the first two cows, a third appeared right in front of me. With eye to eye contact with the cow and a collision imminent, I wondered who would flinch first; me or the cow..
21 May 2012
I had never slalomed my hang glider before, and after I negotiated my way around the first two cows, a third appeared right in front of me. With eye to eye contact with the cow and a collision imminent, I wondered who would flinch first; me or the cow..
21 May 2012
Spring Competition
Due to my late arrival I was last to launch. There had already been some notable problems with the winch which varied between cable snaps and tangles, all of which slowed progression through launching pilots and by the time of my first launch, I became victim of another cable snap...
21 Apr 2012
Due to my late arrival I was last to launch. There had already been some notable problems with the winch which varied between cable snaps and tangles, all of which slowed progression through launching pilots and by the time of my first launch, I became victim of another cable snap...
21 Apr 2012
