TVHGC Flying Diary

01 / 11 / 2011 :: Milk Hill

2011-11-01T19:29:00.002Z

Name::Mike LongEmail::_at_ Date::01 / 11 / 2011Direction::South West Comments::Very pleasant, bright sunny day to fly. Height gains to 300' ato in gentle thermals. Who'd have thought it was November..... Pictures::http://www.tvhgc.co.uk/photo_gallery/ XC League::TVHGC :: National

14 / 10 / 2011 :: Tan

2011-10-14T21:18:00.002Z

Name::Dave ThomasEmail::dgwt _at_ hotmail.co.ukDate::14 / 10 / 2011Direction::South East Comments::Great time with three others also flying. almost got to cloudbase a number of times - 2800ASL with the clouds a few hundred above. set myself a goal of the white horse at Milk Hill and managed to get forward enough to be in front of it but to the west. Altogether a cracking day in quite a brisk

22 / 09 / 2011 :: Woolacombe

2011-09-25T15:27:00.002Z

Name :: Mike Hibbit Email :: cloud9airsports@btopenworld.com _at_ Date :: 22 / 09 / 2011 Direction :: West Comments :: On a family holiday in Mortehoe, N.Devon. Managed to find a window in between the wind and rain! Had a great hour and a half flight on Woolacombe Down. Although the wind was off to the south of west, you could weave in and out of the sand dunes and work the into wind

29 / 08 / 2011 :: Liddington

2011-08-30T14:08:00.002Z

Name :: Bob Johnston Email :: bob _at_ skylinemodels.co.uk Date :: 29 / 08 / 2011 Direction :: North West Comments :: 3 days spent at the Blorenge bash in grey windy generally unflyable weather, gave up and drove back to fly at Liddington on the way home, got a bit in but wasn't great flying so gave up and went home, still without seeing the sun, typical bank holiday weather. Pictures :

03 / 08 / 2011 :: Milk Hill

2011-08-05T13:22:00.002Z

Name :: Andrew Craig Email :: andrewcrai _at_ gmail.com Date :: 03 / 08 / 2011 Direction :: South West Comments :: Hoping for a decent XC, after climbing out was surprised by the drift taking me NE or even NNE rather than ENE. Had to turn crosswind to avoid RAF Lyneham airspace, and bombed out at 10k, near Rockley. Nice though! Two more PGs went past, heading ENE, an hour later under an

2011-06-14 Mere

2011-06-20T18:16:00.001Z

A fun time, if a bit busy and quite demanding to fly.Reech

11 / 06 / 2011 :: Milk Hill

2011-06-11T20:29:00.002Z

Name::ReechEmail::rstiling _at_ Date::11 / 06 / 2011Direction::West Comments::No vid, no flying for me. Fun watching people doing the light scratchy thermal thing. Even more fun watching the masses doing the same on Rybury..... Good to see the lucky few climb out. Too scratchy for me though. Also clouds looked a bity suspect and energetic. Sure enough late afternoon clouds ganged up and made the

31 / 05 / 2011 :: Liddington

2011-06-03T20:47:00.002Z

Name::Mike HibbitEmail::cloud9airsports@btopenworld.com _at_ Date::31 / 05 / 2011Direction::North West Comments::Awesome sky and not as windy as I expected on arrival at 1pm. Left the hill about an hour later with another Advance pilot. Later joined by a Nova pilot. These guys climbed to cloudbase but the clouds were too black and too big for me to get any closer than 500 ft. below. Drift was

20 / 05 / 2011 :: Rhossili

2011-05-21T21:01:00.002Z

Name::Mike HibbitEmail::_at_ Date::20 / 05 / 2011Direction::West Comments::After a holiday with my wife walking around the Pembrokeshire coast, we stopped off at Rhossili before driving home. Wind a bit too strong on the top of the 600 ft,hill, so launched from the Pimple in a lull and big eared down to the raised beach. Had some very pleasant soaring along the full length of this section with

09 / 05 / 2011 :: Barton

2011-05-10T09:36:00.002Z

Name :: Robert Ager Email :: robertager _at_ ash-studios.co.uk Date :: 09 / 05 / 2011 Direction :: South Comments :: Was howling on the way down to Barton and I thought Metcheck had got it wrong. Was very windy but a couple of Swedish (I think) pilots were up in the 25mph wind on normal wings! The wind dropped a bit about midday and I got into the air and flew (on an empty ridge) until

2011-03-24 Kettle Sings Malverns

2011-03-26T02:32:00.002Z

Light E 8mph wind and thermic uppness. Very lurvely....Reech

08 / 03 / 2011 :: Milk Hill

2011-03-13T23:03:00.002Z

Name :: Nik Valiris Email :: nik.valiris _at_ gmail.com Date :: 08 / 03 / 2011 Direction :: South West Comments :: Light in the morning then full on strong 20mph late morning early afternoon. Big inversion and haze preventing the much thermic activity but later on some came through allowing climbs to 2000-2500' amsl and a few cruised over the back towards Malborough. Pictures ::

13 / 03 / 2011 :: Combe Gibbet

2011-03-13T22:56:00.001Z

Name :: Nik Valiris Email :: nik.valiris _at_ gmail.com Date :: 13 / 03 / 2011 Direction :: North West Comments :: Nice to see 30 pilots up on Combe in the afternoon once the cold fronts passed through and conditions improved, reminiscent of the summer time. Quite scratchy and a bit too Westerly at times, but lots of thermic cycles went through and good climbs to be had too. I also

13 / 03 / 2011 :: Westbury

2011-03-13T20:13:00.002Z

Name::Steve NewcombeEmail::steve_newcombe _at_ hotmail.comDate::13 / 03 / 2011Direction::North West Comments::Superb afternoon. Once up high there were thermals everywhere out the front and highest base approaching 4,500'. Some good lift lines allowed a push out to the Yarnbrook woods. The fun new flying season has begun! Pictures::XC League::TVHGC :: National

08 / 03 / 2011 :: Milk

2011-03-08T20:55:00.002Z

Name::Bryan ReganEmail::regan22 _at_ virginmedia.comDate::08 / 03 / 2011Direction::South West Comments::A brilliant spectacle seeing so many pilots so high above Milk. The BBC news at ten had no doubt helped our decision making with a friendly 7mph yesterday evening. Was everyone really wanting to go XC?, I suspect not. By 2 O'Clock it was possible to ridge soar the bottom fence - no joke! Hope

2011-03-04 Pontlottyn

2011-03-06T17:46:00.001Z

Fun day flying :)Reech

05 / 03 / 2011 :: Mercury

2011-03-06T08:22:00.002Z

Name::Steve NewcombeEmail::steve_newcombe _at_ hotmail.comDate::05 / 03 / 2011Direction::East Comments::Arrived mid-afternoon to hear tales of some good flying, thermals and XCs from the Whitewool site just behind. Quickly got clipped in just as it blew out and everyone landed and packed up for the day – great! However a half-hour wait saw it ease and had a pleasant boat around to blow away the

19 / 02 / 2011 :: Combe Gibbet

2011-02-21T10:27:00.002Z

Name :: Nik Valiris Email :: nik.valiris _at_ gmail.com Date :: 19 / 02 / 2011 Direction :: North West Comments :: Lots of low cloud around most of the day following the occluded front that went through early morning. As it lifted a bit in the afternoon and turned NNW grabbed 20 mins soaring and shared it with Richard Bungay and Bryan Regan on the tandem. Pictures :: XC League

20 / 02 / 2011 :: Tan Hill

2011-02-21T10:12:00.003Z

Name :: Nik Valiris Email :: nik.valiris _at_ gmail.com Date :: 20 / 02 / 2011 Direction :: South East Comments :: Rather too easterly for most of the day, but in the afternoon John and I climbed up for a looks as it changed for a brief hour to SE<->ESE. Lunching on the side of the bowl the sun came out for some nice lifty conditions out front. Pictures :: XC League :: TVHGC ::

12 / 02 / 2011 :: Pen Dinas, Aberystwyth

2011-02-20T14:52:00.004Z

Name :: Richard & Gnasher Email :: richard _at_ cloudbase.me.uk Date :: 12 / 02 / 2011 Direction :: West Comments :: Gnasher and myself went to Snowdonia with my old climbing club to get some practice in for the X-Alps. Weather looked good near the coast so we went to Pen Dinas. Pictures :: http://www.xalps-teamgb.co.uk XC League :: TVHGC :: National

08 / 02 / 2011 :: Golden Ball

2011-02-08T18:58:00.002Z

Name::IanPEmail::pepsathome _at_ ntlworld.comDate::08 / 02 / 2011Direction::South East Comments::Fabulous conditions for the time of year, sunshine and proper thermals in February, very pleasant. Took off at 11:30, I packed up at 4 with folks still flying. Pictures::http://www.tvhgc.co.uk/photo_gallery/ XC League::TVHGC :: National

2011-01-30 Ubley

2011-01-31T09:43:00.002Z

First flight at this historic site.Public access to this wonderful beauty spot is seriously under threat from a land grabbing 'charity'!Watch the vid then go to www.flyubley.co.uk and do your bit to safe guard public access rights and our Free Flying!Reech

24 / 01 / 2011 :: Westbury

2011-01-27T00:48:00.002Z

Name :: Nik Valiris Email :: nik.valiris _at_ gmail.com Date :: 24 / 01 / 2011 Direction :: North West Comments :: Started the day with no wind which was very unusual given the forecast was blown out conditions. It picked up a bit by mid day to reward a lovely boat around then it blew out very quickly. I waited an hour and then it was back on for some strong but very nice smooth

18 / 01 / 2011 :: Westbury

2011-01-19T08:54:00.002Z

Name::Mike LongEmail::_at_ Date::18 / 01 / 2011Direction::North West Comments::Great to be in the air for the first time this year. Sunny skies, good lift, a few thermals. Nice flying for paragliders and hangies too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSWAgzUndGo Pictures::http://www.tvhgc.co.uk/photo_gallery/ XC League::TVHGC :: National

09 / 01 / 2011 :: Milk Hill

2011-01-11T01:49:00.003Z

Name :: Nik Valiris Email :: nik.valiris _at_ gmail.com Date :: 09 / 01 / 2011 Direction :: West Comments :: A fabulous day, thought it would be blown out am, but arrived to Find John and Colin and a few others up high! Waited for a bit to see how the wind was doing as it was top end. After a chat with Colin and surveying the conditions it looked fairly sable non gusty and I got the

2011-01-09 Merthyr

2011-01-09T22:55:00.001Z

Back in the saddle. Thanks for all the help and encouragement folks! It was needed and much appreciated!Reech :)

24 / 12 / 2010 :: Uffington

2010-12-24T15:47:00.002Z

Name::Steve EmpringhamEmail::_at_ Date::24 / 12 / 2010Direction::North Comments::Not the best flying ever, but it had a certain charm. Very good just over the White Horse/Dog, rough and sinky everywhere else. Not many folk about, can't think why! Have a good Christmas. Pictures::none XC League::TVHGC :: National

16 / 11 / 2010 :: Tan Hill

2010-11-16T19:06:00.002Z

Name :: Nik Valiris Email :: nik.valiris _at_ gmail.com Date :: 16 / 11 / 2010 Direction :: South East Comments :: My first time on Tan Hill and arrived at 2pm with a few others up. Light conditions to start with and then rewarded with some lovely smooth soaring for the afternoon. Nice glide back down to the cars at the barn. Pictures :: XC League :: TVHGC :: National

13 / 11 / 2010 :: Sugar Hill

2010-11-15T18:46:00.002Z

Name::mike HibbitEmail::_at_ Date::13 / 11 / 2010Direction::South West Comments::Very good day at Sugar. For winter flying, far more fun than Milk and no parking problems. Why does everybody go to M H instead? Pictures::http://www.tvhgc.co.uk/photo_gallery/ XC League::TVHGC :: National

13 / 11 / 2010 :: Milk Hill

2010-11-13T22:32:00.002Z

Name::Bob JohnstonEmail::bob _at_ skylinemodelsdotcodotukDate::13 / 11 / 2010Direction::South West Comments::Very light but pleasant couple of hours on Milk, just enough lift to give Bran his second ever tandem flight much to his and every one else's amusment. It went south and dropped off at about 2pm and that was the end of it, the promised sun shine stayed just off the the North west all the

10 / 11 / 2010 :: Westbury

2010-11-10T20:12:00.002Z

Name::Mike LongEmail::_at_ Date::10 / 11 / 2010Direction::North Comments::An excellent day. Quite strong at takeoff but once up rewarded by clear views and good height gains on what was a cold but sunny day. Pictures::http://www.tvhgc.co.uk/photo_gallery/ XC League::TVHGC :: National

2010-11-01 Milk Hill

2010-11-02T09:17:00.001Z

At last I can get out for a toddle. Gettin better! Slowly!Reech

01 / 11 / 2010 :: Milk Hill

2010-11-01T20:51:00.002Z

Name :: Nik Valiris Email :: nik.valiris _at_ g Date :: 01 / 11 / 2010 Direction :: South West Comments :: Nice evening for the 1st November flying in silky smooth conditions with a few others. When I arrived lots up flying but the wind was dropping. So after a quick pre-flight it was up to see what could be made of the conditions. Not massive height gain but one of those evenings

31 / 10 / 2010 :: Milk Hill White Horse

2010-11-01T20:43:00.002Z

Name :: Nik Valiris Email :: nik.valiris _at_ gmail.com Date :: 31 / 10 / 2010 Direction :: South Comments :: After leaving at 6.30am I got to GB car park at 8am and a small group of us walked round to MilkHill WH, mad fools! To our surprise there was no wind but gradually came on around 9am but still not enough to fly so lots of ground handling at getting the wing wet, but the sun was

30 / 10 / 2010 :: Sugar Hill

2010-11-01T19:56:00.002Z

Name::Mike HibbitEmail::_at_ Date::30 / 10 / 2010Direction::South West Comments::Arrived at my local SW site at lunch time to find great looking sky, wind smack on, but just a little too strong. Decided to go on to Sugar. Had some reasonable soaring but wind was gusty and backing gradually all the while! By 5 pm wind was due south, so flew down to pack up and go home. Surprise surprise! along

24 / 10 / 2010 :: Chinnor Ridge

2010-10-24T20:56:00.002Z

Name::Bob JohnstonEmail::bob _at_ skylinemodelsdodcodotukDate::24 / 10 / 2010Direction::North Comments::Must too much north in it for Chinnor really, thought about Uffington but got slightly pressured in to Chinnor, rough getting away from take off but ok when round in the northerly bowl, gave up after hands got cold and it picked up a bit. Second time on Chinnor in a week so not bad for the time

24 / 10 / 2010 :: Uffington

2010-10-24T19:31:00.002Z

Name::Mike LongEmail::_at_ Date::24 / 10 / 2010Direction::North Comments::Once the day got going at about 11.30,(a bit later than forecast! ) it turned out to be a cracking day, flyable all day long with good height gains from both dynamic and thermic air. Suddenly switched off about 4.45pm. Mike Pictures::http://www.tvhgc.co.uk/photo_gallery/ XC League::TVHGC :: National

15 / 10 / 2010 :: Liddington Castle

2010-10-19T11:24:00.002Z

Name::Dave ThomasEmail::dgwt _at_ hotmail.co.ukDate::15 / 10 / 2010Direction::Other! Comments::Wind initially off to the north, but came round to the NNW. My first time at the site and I can't wait to use it in the XC season, I loved it. I was on a yellow and red Nova Factor and there was another identical one there as well. I tried out my new Impress Lightness harness, which I also rather

15 / 10 / 2010 :: Uffington White Horse

2010-10-17T12:35:00.002Z

Name::Mike HibbitEmail::_at_ Date::15 / 10 / 2010Direction::North Comments::Myself, Mike Long, Mick Wooldridge, Daniel Games, Francis Rich with tandem passenger, two Speedwing pilots and one modeller enjoyed good, steady lift. Weak thermals were shared with red kites and Mike performed some good PR when a couple of Wardens turned up and asked if we were 'Alexanders mates'. Pictures::TVHGC Gallery

04 / 10 / 2010 :: Milk Hill

2010-10-08T11:08:00.002Z

Name :: Nik Valiris Email :: nik.valiris _at_ gmail.com Date :: 04 / 10 / 2010 Direction :: South West Comments :: Late call in the day to see what the weather was doing as the morning was forecast light. It picked up nicely and Jenny, Peps and Mike arrived at 4pm and myself at 5pm. When I arrived it was quite strong but flyable and due to calm later. Launched and pushed out front

02 / 10 / 2010 :: Milk Hill White Horse

2010-10-03T19:21:00.002Z

Name :: Nik Valiris Email :: nik.valiris _at_ gmail.com Date :: 02 / 10 / 2010 Direction :: South Comments :: Lovey sunny day and rest from all the rain we have had lately. Arrived at 9am and walked over from GB and met John Morgan. Wind was light 6mph but steadily increasing. After a bit of ground handling and five others arrived we got about 45mins of soaring and odd thermal to

2010-0727 Harlech Incident

2010-09-30T08:58:00.002Z

I wondered if I should post this vid as it does have quite traumatic 'footage' of my paragliding incident. On balance I think it's important to show all aspects of paragliding. It's instructional........Reech

23 / 09 / 2010 :: Woolly

2010-09-25T20:50:00.002Z

Name::Mike HibbitEmail::cloud9airsports@btopenworld.com _at_ Date::23 / 09 / 2010Direction::West Comments::Few days away, with my wife, in Woolacombe. We had some excellent coastal walking and on Thursday afternoon I pigged out with some great flying along the dunes. Ideal conditions for cruising thirty feet above the surf and flying the whole mile and a half to Putsborough and back. Also flew

21 / 09 / 2010 :: Golden Ball

2010-09-22T18:59:00.003Z

Name::Mike LongEmail::_at_ Date::21 / 09 / 2010Direction::South Comments::Both G.Ball and MHWH flown today. A number xc flights and triangles done. Good soaring too. Pleasant afternoon. Mike Pictures::http://www.tvhgc.co.uk/photo_gallery/ XC League::TVHGC :: National

12 / 09 / 2010 :: Liddington

2010-09-13T20:52:00.002Z

Name :: IanP Email :: pepsathome _at_ ntlworld.com Date :: 12 / 09 / 2010 Direction :: North West Comments :: Day started with some spirited thermals in strong wnw wind, many got away, (special concrats to Storm's 40k). Conditions changed early afternoon, initially too ratty for comfort eventually things calmed a little to give still sporty but enjoyable soaring. Pictures :: http:/

05 / 09 / 2010 :: Malverns Kettle Sings

2010-09-05T10:52:00.008Z

Name :: Nik Valiris Email :: nik.valiris@googlemail.com _at_ nik.valiris@googlemail.com Date :: 05 / 09 / 2010 Direction :: East Comments :: We chose a Cloudbase Posse outIng to the Malverens "Kettle Sings" and for those low air time TVHGC members this was the first visit to the site. The weather looked good but light. We arrived to mist and low cloud to start with but it cleared in

19 / 08 / 2010 :: Milk Hill White Horse

2010-08-21T18:42:00.002Z

Name :: Mike Long Email :: _at_ Date :: 19 / 08 / 2010 Direction :: South Comments :: There was a good turn out of some very keen pilots, some who had travelled for an hour or more to get here by 8.45am. Knowing that the wind was likely to increase the four of us, who were there initially, decided to walk from the carpark to the front of Milk as the wind was southerly, not SW as

16 / 08 / 2010 :: Liddington

2010-08-16T23:14:00.004Z

Name :: Nik Valiris Email :: nik.valiris _at_ Gmail.com Date :: 16 / 08 / 2010 Direction :: North West Comments :: Blown out all day I headed after work arrived at 6.30pm with one pilot up but was rough and still v. strong. Left it until 7.30pm when it dropped to 14-17mph but it was switching around from NW- WNW so a few of us did lots of take offs and landings when the conditions

08 / 08 / 2010 :: Rhossilli

2010-08-09T10:22:00.002Z

Name :: Martin Brown Email :: MartinABrown38 _at_ hotmail.com Date :: 08 / 08 / 2010 Direction :: West Comments :: Made an annual pigrilmage to this splendiferous coastal site on the Gower peninsula,turned out to be one of those classic Rhossilli days. Enroute the M4 corridoor up to Swansea was claggy as per RASP, however upon passing the town and onto the coast road it was evident the

08 / 08 / 2010 :: Rudlers West & Combe

2010-08-09T09:47:00.004Z

Name :: Nik Valiris Email :: Nik.Valiris _at_ gmail.com Date :: 08 / 08 / 2010 Direction :: North West Comments :: Some nice early morning flying on Combe Gibbet then it got too light and not many thermals and turned W'ly. Got a lovely invite from Lee to fly Rudlers West in the afternoon for a few hours of pure soaring and thermic fun, lovely end to the day - really magical.

07 / 08 / 2010 :: Chinnor Ridge

2010-08-08T21:19:00.002Z

Name :: Bob Johnston Email :: bob _at_ skylinemodelsdotcodotuk Date :: 07 / 08 / 2010 Direction :: North West Comments :: Sneaked another hour in on Chinnor in the evening after the last of the showers died off, nice and smooth and plenty of lift. Just as well as wasted most of the day up there today (sunday)waiting for it to come on and it never did. Pictures :: http://

07 / 08 / 2010 :: Bradwell Edge

2010-08-08T17:39:00.002Z

Name :: mike Hibbit Email :: cloud9airsports@btopenworld.com _at_ Date :: 07 / 08 / 2010 Direction :: West Comments :: Visiting my wife's sister for the weekend in Sheffield. About a 40 minute drive away is Bradwell Edge (see photos in TVHGC August Gallery) Not an epic day but well flyable until rain and strong winds arrived mid afternoon. Met up with Brian Holmes, ex TVHGC member. He

01 / 08 / 2010 :: Rybury

2010-08-04T13:57:00.002Z

Name :: Rob Bradley Email :: r.d.bradley _at_ btinternet.com Date :: 01 / 08 / 2010 Direction :: West Comments :: Quite an overcast start to the day, but good strong and stable wind flow over the hill. Managed a good ridge soar for an hour or so around 10.30am before the wind strengthened and thermals became a bit stonger. Brightened up in the afternoon, but didn't manage to enjoy any

30 / 07 / 2010 :: Chinnor ridge

2010-07-29T23:09:00.002Z

Name :: Bob Johnston Email :: bob _at_ skylinemodelsdotcodotuk Date :: 30 / 07 / 2010 Direction :: North West Comments :: yep Chinnor again but very nice this evening, nice boat around for a hour then top land and home for tea. Looking forward to the BBQ on Saturday, see you all there I hope. Pictures :: http://www.tvhgc.co.uk/photo_gallery/ XC League :: TVHGC :: National

28 / 07 / 2010 :: Chinnor Ridge

2010-07-28T21:47:00.002Z

Name :: Bob Johnston Email :: bob _at_ skylinemodelsdotcodotuk Date :: 28 / 07 / 2010 Direction :: North West Comments :: Suprisingly strong on Chinnor when I got there at just after 6, waited until until 7.30 for it to drop when it actually got a bit light but reasonably lifty once up, after 15 mins in the air and with a few light rain showers around we were suddenly hit by a

25 / 07 / 2010 :: Liddington

2010-07-26T14:08:00.002Z

Name :: Nik Valiris Email :: nik.valiris _at_ gmail.com Date :: 25 / 07 / 2010 Direction :: North West Comments :: So Liddington on Sunday and after a long day parawaiting and watching I nearly gave up. I was packing up when the clouds changed, things were were improving and wind changed direction and stayed fairly constant NW'ly to be on the hill. The earlier waves of the afternoon

25 / 07 / 2010 :: Telegraph Hill, Dorset

2010-07-26T10:42:00.002Z

Name :: Steve Newcombe Email :: steve_newcombe _at_ hotmail.com Date :: 25 / 07 / 2010 Direction :: North West Comments :: First time visit to this NW site, and the sky looked great. Quite a busy day with a friendly crowd on take off, but unfriendly air with rough, bullet thermals that seemed to go nowhere. Kirsty soon escaped from all this nonsense, finding pleasant XC conditions, and

19 / 07 / 2010 :: milk

2010-07-19T17:05:00.002Z

Name :: tim king Email :: skyrocketfree _at_ yahoo.co.uk Date :: 19 / 07 / 2010 Direction :: South Comments :: conditions seemed nice while rigging but wind speed gradually increasing visited white horse golden ball etc thermals were ballistic to 3500 but needed that to get back to ridge Pictures :: http://www.tvhgc.co.uk/photo_gallery/ XC League :: TVHGC :: National

06 / 07 / 2010 :: Pena Negra, Piedrahita

2010-07-14T20:41:00.002Z

Name :: Mike Thomas Email :: Mike _at_ ThomasHome.co.uk Date :: 06 / 07 / 2010 Direction :: North East Comments :: Submitted a little late, but it took ages to upload the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OEUQ3QGfSw NE again but lighter so a valley task to Barco and maybe North to Salamanca was planned. I took off but then bombed at the Chalets which I really don't like doing.

10 / 07 / 2010 :: Barton

2010-07-11T16:45:00.001Z

Name :: Mike Hibbit/ Daniel Games Email :: cloud9airsports@btopenworld.com _at_ Date :: 10 / 07 / 2010 Direction :: South Comments :: First time at this tricky take-off site. We met up with Robert Agar who flies here quite a lot. Launch is in rotor on small cliff edge! Once away though, there is a very nice coastal run to Milford on Sea, about four miles. The half way mark is obvious

08 / 07 / 2010 :: Rybury

2010-07-08T18:19:00.001Z

Name :: Simon Twiss Email :: simon.twiss _at_ btinternet.com Date :: 08 / 07 / 2010 Direction :: South West Comments :: Nice skies, then grey, then nice. (thanks to Charlie Merrett for persuading me to stay) Once up, the viz was amazing - Didcot PS looked so close, it felt like I could just glide to it - Of course I cant - I'd just bomb in godforsaken Wantage; So instead, I spent 2

2010-03-21 Whitesheet

2010-07-06T16:48:00.000Z

Avoiding the wind in Wales and the crowds at Rybury....Reech

06 / 07 / 2010 :: Rybury

2010-07-06T16:25:00.002Z

Name :: Al Wilson Email :: al _at_ mrog.co.uk Date :: 06 / 07 / 2010 Direction :: South West Comments :: We arrived under a stunning sky to several gliders skying out over Milk, and a few struggling at ridge height behind Rybury. Despite this, up Rybury we went, and found a fairly brisk SW blowing. It was lumpy and unpleasant in the air, but there was a brief window in which a few

05 / 07 / 2010 :: Chinnor ridge

2010-07-05T23:40:00.001Z

Name :: Bob Johnston Email :: bob _at_ skylinemodelsdotcodotuk Date :: 05 / 07 / 2010 Direction :: North West Comments :: Lovely after work fly for myself and Rob Ginger, bit strong and a little rough at times but always plenty of lift which went on way out the front for a while, 2 hours in the air and then top land and home for tea, can't be bad:-) Pictures :: http://

05 / 07 / 2010 :: Rhossili

2010-07-05T11:49:00.001Z

Name :: mike Hibbit/ Daniel Games/ Paulo from Italy Email :: cloud9airsports@btopenworld.com _at_ Date :: 05 / 07 / 2010 Direction :: West Comments :: With five harnesses, four wings and three pilots plus camping gear,we arrived at the coastal Mecca of Rhossili at midday. Unbelievably (as it seemed to be blowing a hoolie once we crossed the Severn) it was quite light but well soarable

2010-05-15 Bell Hill Jezeroo edit

2010-07-02T19:48:00.001Z

Here's a bit of vid of me on me Ibex shot by the most excellent Jezeroo!Reech

28 / 06 / 2010 :: Rybury

2010-06-29T13:06:00.001Z

Name :: Simon Headford Email :: simon_headford _at_ yahoo.co.uk Date :: 28 / 06 / 2010 Direction :: West Comments :: Turbulent, strong, didn't like it very much :-) so left at about 2.30. Low and slow I think you'd call the climb out. But a lovely flight, and 70k-odd to Stadhampton on the edge of para Chalgrove. Pictures :: XC League :: TVHGC :: National

27 / 06 / 2010 :: Rybury

2010-06-28T10:10:00.001Z

Name :: Colin Hawke Email :: ColinHawke _at_ hotmail.co.uk Date :: 27 / 06 / 2010 Direction :: South West Comments :: Had a great flight on Sunday 27th June from Rybury. I managed a declared goal flight 80km back home to Princes-Risborough in Buckinghamshire. I put a post here in my blog http://colinhawke.blogspot.com/2010/06/80km-declared-goal-flight-to-home.html Pictures :: http:

27 / 06 / 2010 :: Rybury

2010-06-28T01:03:00.001Z

Name :: Nik Valiris Email :: nik.valiris _at_ gmail.com Date :: 27 / 06 / 2010 Direction :: South West Comments :: Light and thermic in the morning, couldn't decide on Milk Hill or Rybury, so Richard Ford and I headed up Rybury. Was between 8-10mph SW with light thermic cycles. We took off and not much height gain but was quite pleasant and not too busy to scratch around. Later in

26 / 06 / 2010 :: Barton on Sea

2010-06-27T00:11:00.002Z

Name :: Robert Ager Email :: robertager _at_ ash-studios.co.uk Date :: 26 / 06 / 2010 Direction :: South Comments :: Was a difficult decision today about where it would work but I decided that the hot weather and high temperature would probably create a reasonable sea breeze so headed down to Barton on the motorbike. Glad I did as it seemed to be solid traffic all the way from Feltham

2010-06-23 Mynydd Meio

2010-06-26T08:31:00.001Z

A return visit to a site I haven't been to for years. Needs to be bang on SW to work properly and it was a bit WSW...Reech

23 / 06 / 2010 :: Milk Hill

2010-06-24T22:19:00.002Z

Name :: Nik Valiris Email :: nik _at_ gmail.com Date :: 23 / 06 / 2010 Direction :: South West Comments :: Visited Rybury with Tommy in the morning with quite strong SSW'ly conditions and busy so we decided to head up Milk and good decision. It was bang on the hill and not so strong. After sitting it out for a bit and a wind dummy later we ventured out, caught a nice large but broken

23 / 06 / 2010 :: Bald Hill near M40

2010-06-23T20:59:00.002Z

Name :: Bob Johnston Email :: bob _at_ skylinemodelsdotcodotuk Date :: 23 / 06 / 2010 Direction :: West Comments :: Nice little scratch around on Bald hill afterwork, nothing epic but it was fun, best bit is it's all of 6 or 7 mins from work. If you fly this GAP site then treat it with the respect this tricky little site deserves or it will bite you. Pictures :: http://

2010-06-19 Hirwaun

2010-06-21T19:28:00.001Z

Fabby visit to a familiar place to all you Old Airtopeans out there.Reech

20 / 06 / 2010 :: rivar hill/ combe

2010-06-21T06:37:00.001Z

Name :: Email :: _at_ Date :: 20 / 06 / 2010 Direction :: North Comments :: Second solo in k13 from Rivar hill, joined a small gaggle in a thermal behind combs which was great. 1hr a 30 in the air, not quite as impressive as Rich Bungays 5hrs and 118km.... Barbs Pictures :: http://www.tvhgc.co.uk/photo_gallery/ XC League :: TVHGC :: National

2010-06-12 Rhigos

2010-06-18T21:00:00.001Z

First visit to a spectacular site.Reech

07 / 06 / 2010 :: Milk Hill

2010-06-09T00:33:00.001Z

Name :: Nik Valiris Email :: nik.valiris _at_ gmail.com Date :: 07 / 06 / 2010 Direction :: South West Comments :: Nice boat around on Milk Hill with a few others before the front and this weeks bad weather came in. Very cloudy but after some initial bouncy conditions it smoothed out and was very nice indeed for some soaring. Pictures :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDj8Hzb5EwE

2010-06-03 Cwmbran Fairwater

2010-06-08T16:49:00.002Z

After work flying. Big wlak up but was perfect on takeoff. SE 5-8 with some thermic stuff. Amazingly lifty!

05 / 06 / 2010 :: Milk Hill White Horse

2010-06-06T17:53:00.001Z

Name :: Nik Valiris Email :: nik.valiris _at_ gmail.com Date :: 05 / 06 / 2010 Direction :: South Comments :: Arrived at MHWH around 3pm as the forecast was very light earlier in the day. Looked like some flying was had on Golden Ball. A few souls JohnM, Tommy, ChrisE, myself and a some other members tried to make the most of it and it did pick up a bit later but with the hill being

03 / 06 / 2010 :: Malverns

2010-06-03T21:52:00.002Z

Name :: Steve Empringham Email :: _at_ Date :: 03 / 06 / 2010 Direction :: East Comments :: A beautiful day, surprisingly few pilots there, although a few TV members filled their boots. A bit strong and off to the south, but plenty of us took off in lulls and got away. Took a right pasting during the climb-out, but later climbs were better. Tedious retrieve; missed last bus,

31 / 05 / 2010 :: Combe

2010-06-01T09:58:00.001Z

Name :: Bob Johnston Email :: bob _at_ skylinemodelsdotcodotuk Date :: 31 / 05 / 2010 Direction :: North Comments :: Lovely day on Combe, bit grey so no XC but flyable most of the day, strong to start with going lighter though the day. Even got the tandem out to help Rob along with his tandem rating then gave Marta a nice little flight. Very bouyant later in the day at times.

2010-05-22 Pandy

2010-05-31T08:30:00.002Z

Light ENE wind with lots of thermal stuff. Rough at the inversion....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyYSTTMOFJoReech

27 / 05 / 2010 :: Combe

2010-05-28T09:42:00.001Z

Name :: Steve Empringham Email :: _at_ Date :: 27 / 05 / 2010 Direction :: Other! Comments :: Textbook XC preparation - arrived at hill to find vario dead, drove like madman to ParAvion and bought Sonic, raced back to hill. Deep breath. Took off into strange climb - lots of small wandering cores. Headed off east and kept it going until just south of Alton, where sky turned black. Now

27 / 05 / 2010 :: Chinnor ridge

2010-05-27T21:47:00.001Z

Name :: Bob Johnston Email :: bob _at_ skylinemodelsdotcodotuk Date :: 27 / 05 / 2010 Direction :: North West Comments :: Lovely evening flight on Chinnor ridge for just me and Rob Ginger, way off the west to start to and fairly hard work in the broken thermals but got better later turning to one of those lovely evening float arounds, I love summer evenings. Pictures :: http://

27 / 05 / 2010 :: Combe

2010-05-27T19:14:00.002Z

Name :: Mike Long Email :: _at_ Date :: 27 / 05 / 2010 Direction :: North West Comments :: Progressed a little step further in my paragliding life with a climb to 3700'amsl and a triangularish flight 2.5km over the back then forward to land on Walbury Hill. Great views, super weather, very enjoyable but forgot the camera.... Pictures :: http://www.tvhgc.co.uk/photo_gallery/ XC

22 / 05 / 2010 :: Malverns

2010-05-23T09:48:00.002Z

Name :: Steve Newcombe Email :: steve_newcombe _at_ hotmail.com Date :: 22 / 05 / 2010 Direction :: East Comments :: Busy day with pilots coming from all points of the compass, especially with a BCC comp on. Counted at least 10 Thames members there. Left the hill in one of the early gaggles, but we were soon bashing our heads against the rough inversion. Without a cloud in the sky,

18 / 05 / 2010 :: Sharper's Head

2010-05-22T21:15:00.001Z

Name :: mike Hibbit Email :: _at_ cloud9airsports@btopenworld.com Date :: 18 / 05 / 2010 Direction :: South East Comments :: Whilst on holiday, near Berwick Upon Tweed, I managed to sneak in some very pleasant soaring with the seagulls on cliffs north of the town. Take off was from a childrens playground grassed area cut into the cliff! Behind them a caravan park with footpath along

2010-05-15 Bell Hill

2010-05-16T11:57:00.001Z

I managed to snooze and float about on an epic day! Had some fun on my Ibex when it got blown out though. even had a gale hangy kinda flight at the end of the day as well.Reech

09 / 05 / 2010 :: Sharpenhoe clappers

2010-05-09T21:10:00.001Z

Name :: Bob Johnston Email :: _at_ Date :: 09 / 05 / 2010 Direction :: North East Comments :: My first visit to Sharpenhoe, I can see the XC potentail of the site, flew for about a hour and a half in some really snotty conditions at time. very cold air, strong wind and the sun coming out a little, couldn't connect with any of the punchy little thermals enough to leave the hill but we

05 / 05 / 2010 :: Combe Gibbet

2010-05-09T17:45:00.001Z

Name :: Mike Hibbit Email :: _at_ Date :: 05 / 05 / 2010 Direction :: North Comments :: 8/8 cloud cover most of the day, but quite lifty especially in the afternoon. 1500 ft over Ham was nice. About ten pilots max till the evening. Flyable right up to the club meeting at the Swan, where Richard Bungay helped us to get to grips with our GPS knowledge, or lack of, in my case. Thanks

24 / 04 / 2010 :: Milk Hill White Horse

2010-04-25T23:39:00.001Z

Name :: Nik Valiris Email :: nik.valiris _at_ gmail.com Date :: 24 / 04 / 2010 Direction :: South Comments :: Arrived at 11am with a few others. It was blowing a steady 12mph SE'ly to start with and nice and sunny but quite hazy (inversion layer?!?) however by 12noon it had picked up to 16-18 and S'ly. Everyone got some decent soaring for a few hours with small punchy thermals which

23 / 04 / 2010 :: Golden Ball - Faringdon

2010-04-23T21:04:00.001Z

Name :: David Hague Email :: davehague _at_ gmail.com Date :: 23 / 04 / 2010 Direction :: South Comments :: Launched just after midday and initially had the sky to myself, apart from a bird of prey that followed me around squawking. Eventually decided to go XC with a (Team 5?) blue wing. They raced off towards Marlborough and found a climb. I joined a sailplane in a climb above the

21 / 04 / 2010 :: Combe Gibbet

2010-04-22T11:24:00.001Z

Name :: Al Wilson Email :: al _at_ mrog.co.uk Date :: 21 / 04 / 2010 Direction :: North Comments :: Beautiful sunny day with wind strong and a little off to the east, but nice conditions in the air. The forecast cumulus disappeared about lunchtime leaving blue conditions. Clearly 'good blue' though, as a couple made it into Dorset for 70k (Kirsty) and 80k (Tim G). Strong climbs to 4.5k

20 / 04 / 2010 :: Liddington

2010-04-20T23:01:00.001Z

Name :: Nik Valiris Email :: nik.valiris _at_ gmail.com Date :: 20 / 04 / 2010 Direction :: North West Comments :: A cheeky visit after work, after a quick pre-travel weather check (thanks Lee) I arrived with lots of cars and a few groupies flying could only mean one thing lots have gone XC - 100k+ has been mentioned good going all. Well after take off at 6.30pm I had a ball with some

20 / 04 / 2010 :: Liddington

2010-04-20T17:33:00.001Z

Name :: Al Wilson Email :: al _at_ mrog.co.uk Date :: 20 / 04 / 2010 Direction :: North West Comments :: epic! at least 4 100k flights to the south downs, think mark jones won the day with 120k. well done to jon collie on his first uk ton, 109k to arundel. windy in the morning, but liddington lived up to reputation for being good in a gale and tim g and i climbed straight out from

2010-04-17 Talybont and 2010-04-18 Blorenge

2010-04-20T00:52:00.001Z

A whizo weekend.Reech

10 / 04 / 2010 :: mercury sky surfers

2010-04-14T09:58:00.001Z

Name :: Wayne bevan Email :: waynebevan23 _at_ yahoo.co.uk Date :: 10 / 04 / 2010 Direction :: East Comments :: Last Saturday provided much flying for all disciplines at Mercuy albeit the conditions at first were light. May I thank those PG pilots who displayed good airman-ship & discipline when scratching & having to slope land. Most of these pilots did their best not to hang around

2010-04-10 Pandy

2010-04-11T20:40:00.001Z

Quite a day really. Got there about 11.30am. Loads of people there for a BCC round. Very light. Most trekked up to the top takeoff some people used the lower takeoff and managed to get up. I didn't and had a bit of a trek up through the bracken........... Anyway, loads of people flying and quite a few getting away. For reasons unknown to me I was flying like an ass and could barely stay up! After

09 / 04 / 2010 :: Talybont

2010-04-11T15:28:00.001Z

Name :: Mike Long Email :: _at_ Date :: 09 / 04 / 2010 Direction :: West Comments :: Due to work commitment couldn't make the BCC round in Wales at the weekend so headed for Talybont on the Friday. Several pilots in the carpark. Some took the short walk;having met Ken Wilkinson I opted for his advice and we, with three others, took the long walk.... Superb views from the top. The

10 / 04 / 2010 :: Malverns

2010-04-10T22:52:00.001Z

Name :: Bob Johnston Email :: bob _at_ skylinemodelsdotcodotuk Date :: 10 / 04 / 2010 Direction :: North East Comments :: To call it a north East wind isn't fair, there wasn't any most of the time! Warm, stable humid day with increasing cirrus rolling in, stupid me thought it would improve once small cu's started popping, it didn't and I wished I went earlier! Finally left around 3