29 / 04 / 2007 :: Pandy
| Name | :: | Ian P |
| :: | pepsathome _at_ ntlworld.com | |
| Date | :: | 29 / 04 / 2007 |
| Direction | :: | East |
| Comments | :: | Wind was on the sporty side but once away from launch (by 4pm) the conditions were silky smooth but strong enough to make for an easy run along the entire ridge. Vis was pretty poor and the wind increased after a couple of hours, making landing a back at the lower takeoff awkward with most pilots electing to land on the track between the lower and upper TO, which was in the lee of the by now NE wind (worth remembering). |
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| XC League | :: | TVHGC :: National |
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29 / 04 / 2007 :: Mercury
| Name | :: | Mike Silvester |
| :: | mikepsilvester@btinternet.com _at_ | |
| Date | :: | 29 / 04 / 2007 |
| Direction | :: | North East |
| Comments | :: | Got to site about one o'clock and the place was crowded. Half a dozen HG's a dozen or so Model aircraft and about 30 PG's. Not much to keep us up at first only light thermals coming through but worth the wait as about 4pm it became very boyant and quite a few that stayed took to the air. left site about about 5pm with just about everybody else. |
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| Pictures | :: | http://www.tvhgc.co.uk/photo_gallery/ |
| XC League | :: | TVHGC :: National |
22 / 04 / 2007 :: Milk Hill White Horse then nornal Milk
| Name | :: | Richard Ford |
| :: | _at_ | |
| Date | :: | 22 / 04 / 2007 |
| Direction | :: | South |
| Comments | :: | Chris Hooker and I could be arsed (to leave the White horse for the bowl) and were eventually rewarded by some lovely evening soaring. Another fantastic flying weekend! |
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| XC League | :: | TVHGC :: National |
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22 / 04 / 2007 :: Milk White Horse
| Name | :: | Jon Eades |
| :: | jon.eades _at_ virgin.net | |
| Date | :: | 22 / 04 / 2007 |
| Direction | :: | South |
| Comments | :: | Saw several gliders struggling a bit on normal Milk, so decided to go to White Horse. Wind initially quite strong but got up ok and spent about an hour boating about with 3 or 4 others. Nothing very epic, but nice all the same. Called it a day when wind went too far SW off the hill. Couldn't be arsed with going to normal Milk! |
| Weather | :: | 06:00 12:00 18:00 |
| Pictures | :: | http://www.tvhgc.co.uk/photo_gallery/ |
| XC League | :: | TVHGC :: National |
21 / 04 / 2007 :: Milk Hill white horse
| Name | :: | jamie glendinning |
| :: | jamie_glendinning _at_ work 2 fly .co.uk | |
| Date | :: | 21 / 04 / 2007 |
| Direction | :: | South |
| Comments | :: | initially SSE then mor southerly and maybe even sw. lots of people on the hill - Ian Pepper managed to hide his Flask in the rough on the 15th hole at Marlborough Golf club - then flew there to pick it up. a couple of others got away. the rest of us flew once things had calmed down a tad. still strong. Richard ford spent most of the afternoon at the top of the stack. niceday out. slightly sunburnt. |
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| XC League | :: | TVHGC :: National |
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19 / 04 / 2007 :: CG
| Name | :: | Martin brown |
| :: | MartinABrown38@ _at_ hotmail.com | |
| Date | :: | 19 / 04 / 2007 |
| Direction | :: | North West |
| Comments | :: | Myself and 5 others taking the opportunity for some evening wafty around flying. No more than 600 ft ATO but after yesterday with unable to keep straight and level flight for more than 3 secs it was most welcome. Oh yes twas lovely to fly in the company of the resident red kites, they seem to be very comfortable in our presence with one passing in front of me by no more than 10 feet. |
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| XC League | :: | TVHGC :: National |
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18 / 04 / 2007 :: Combe
| Name | :: | Al Wilson |
| :: | al _at_ mrog.co.uk | |
| Date | :: | 18 / 04 / 2007 |
| Direction | :: | North West |
| Comments | :: | In a word, epic. Nasty, rough, inconsistent and very overcrowded on the hill, but lovely skies behind it. A new British declared goal record for Adrian T, flying 118km to Lewes, and UK PB's for various pilots (+-65k for Jon Collie and me, 52k for Kirsty). Several made the coast. TVHGC now leads the club ranking in the XC league! |
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17 / 04 / 2007 :: Leckhampton
| Name | :: | Al Wilson |
| :: | al _at_ mrog.co.uk | |
| Date | :: | 17 / 04 / 2007 |
| Direction | :: | North |
| Comments | :: | An excellent forecast but an unimpressive day. Rough and windy on the hill, and a strong inversion at 3000' which neither thermal nor paraglider could penetrate. 3 of us dribbled along for 15-20km, everyone else gave up and and went home. |
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16 / 04 / 2007 :: Combe
| Name | :: | Al Wilson |
| :: | al _at_ mrog.co.uk | |
| Date | :: | 16 / 04 / 2007 |
| Direction | :: | North |
| Comments | :: | Red Kites were out in force, I counted 5 in the air at one point. Lots of synchronised acro and mock-fighting with each other, and they showed no fear in the thermals - I must have been 5ft away from one at one stage. Absolutely stunning. Oh, and the flying was good fun too - shame about the ceiling at 2000ft or so. |
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16 / 04 / 2007 :: Coombe Gibbit
| Name | :: | Mike Silvester |
| :: | mikepsilvester@btinternet.com _at_ | |
| Date | :: | 16 / 04 / 2007 |
| Direction | :: | North |
| Comments | :: | had to write this one up. What a great day at CG. There was an inversion at 500' and take off was a bit gusty but do-able I was bouncing off the inversion ceiling for about 5 hours. The site was busy but not crowded. and as one group left the after work brigade started to arrive. It was very boyant all day. Hope you guys get a good one Tuesday. Mike S |
| Weather | :: | 06:00 12:00 18:00 |
| Pictures | :: | http://www.tvhgc.co.uk/photo_gallery/ |
| XC League | :: | TVHGC :: National |
15 / 04 / 2007 :: Combe Gibbet
| Name | :: | Richard Ford |
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| Date | :: | 15 / 04 / 2007 |
| Direction | :: | North |
| Comments | :: | Very light northerly's pushed thermals on to the hill from about 12:30 to 16:00. No real heroics, but nice to get in the air and practise thermalling. |
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12 / 04 / 2007 :: Malverns
| Name | :: | Al Wilson |
| :: | al _at_ mrog.co.uk | |
| Date | :: | 12 / 04 / 2007 |
| Direction | :: | North East |
| Comments | :: | Surprisingly pleasant day on the Malverns, thermals started coming through around 12.30, tried for a triangle but the wind was too strong. Gave up and went over the back with four others, alternately scratched and cruised along to near Monmouth. Tim G made it past Abergavenny, getting rather wet in the clouds :) |
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12 / 04 / 2007 :: Malvern
| Name | :: | Martin Brown |
| :: | MartinABrown38 _at_ hotmail.com | |
| Date | :: | 12 / 04 / 2007 |
| Direction | :: | North East |
| Comments | :: | A splendid and very pleasant day on Malvern in the company of Ian Pepper and Simon ? alongside 20 other flyers. We arrived at 1pm and rigged frantically as a gaggle were already at cloudbase and on the way to their desination Abergavenny ! Not many more climbs to cloudbase so most were content stooging around at up to 1000ft ATO up until at least 7pm and beyond. The wind was well off to the NE to NNE at times and so it made any climb out challenging but rewarding when stuck at it. Good skills by Simon for retrieving those that went to Aber, hope they at least bought you a hearty meal for your efforts Simon ! |
| Weather | :: | 06:00 12:00 18:00 |
| Pictures | :: | http://www.tvhgc.co.uk/photo_gallery/ |
| XC League | :: | TVHGC :: National |
12 / 04 / 2007 :: Mercury (skySurfers)
| Name | :: | sparky |
| :: | memberships _at_ tvhgc.co.uk | |
| Date | :: | 12 / 04 / 2007 |
| Direction | :: | East |
| Comments | :: | Got to the hill (1st time there) not long after midday. 2 got away while i was kitting-up (Bryan got 14km?), then no-one else did. soft thermals coming and going until half 5 when the wind picked up and the last, big, thermal came through. left site at half 6 when the lift had lightened again but one or two pg and a hg were still soaring. lovely afternoon and a nice site. :-) |
| Weather | :: | 06:00 12:00 18:00 |
| Pictures | :: | http://www.tvhgc.co.uk/photo_gallery/ |
| XC League | :: | TVHGC :: National |
07 / 04 / 2007 :: Mam Tor/ Bradwell Edge
| Name | :: | mike Hibbit |
| :: | cloud9airsports@btopenworld.com _at_ | |
| Date | :: | 07 / 04 / 2007 |
| Direction | :: | West |
| Comments | :: | Saturday at Mam Tor, Peak Distict. VERY BUSY. Good cycles, good height gains, until 3pm. Then we had pilots taking off from north-west face and southerly TO! Arrived at Bradwell Edge about 5.30 pm. Only one flyer there, packing up! Had scratch around in light harness as two pilots turned up. We found weak thermals and flew full length of ridge. Then at 6.30 we connected with Wave and climbed to 2000ft. ato. the world was our lobster as we maintained thia altitude and flew a mile or so upwind. Eventually landed back at our cars at 8pm with wave lift still good but very cold!! Local club have 10 day membership for only a fiver. |
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07 / 04 / 2007 :: Mam Tor/ Bradwell Edge
| Name | :: | Mike Hibbit |
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| Date | :: | 07 / 04 / 2007 |
| Direction | :: | West |
| Comments | :: | East Face flyable with good thermal cycles till 3pm. Then south take off AND north west take off used! Arrived at Bradwell Edge about 5.30pm. Light west/northwest blowing. Scratched aroundfor half an hour then weak thermals to 300ft ato. It got better and better as we( only three of us by this time) got to fly pass gliding club to end of very long ridge in 12 mph westerly. Then down to just two flying we connected with Wave and eventually landed back at our cars at 8pm! The wave took us up to 2000 ft ato and you could fly whole ridge and about a mile upwind! Magic!!! |
| Weather | :: | 06:00 12:00 18:00 |
| Pictures | :: | http://www.tvhgc.co.uk/photo_gallery/ |
| XC League | :: | TVHGC :: National |
08 / 04 / 2007 :: Merthyr
| Name | :: | Andy Edwards |
| :: | pirtek-ae _at_ zoom.co.uk | |
| Date | :: | 08 / 04 / 2007 |
| Direction | :: | West |
| Comments | :: | What a great day. Left the hill after the BCC pilots had gone. Flew 42k, landing at Caerwent Castle. Best UK XC to date. |
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| Pictures | :: | http://www.tvhgc.co.uk/photo_gallery/ |
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08 / 04 / 2007 :: Milk Hill
| Name | :: | James Learmont |
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| Date | :: | 08 / 04 / 2007 |
| Direction | :: | South West |
| Comments | :: | Pleasant light day at Milk, thermals blowing through with 'Battle of Britain' style mass takeoff. Not much meteo wind on the hill for soaring, just enough to kite. About eight of us all told which made for plenty of space (for everyone to dodge my novice flying). Very pleasant day out - mentions to Ian P and Gordon for their advice and help, and the others whose names I've forgot! Although it looked promising at one stage nobody managed to escape the hill. Ian probably got an hour plus of airtime, and the rest of us proportionately less. |
| Weather | :: | 06:00 12:00 18:00 |
| Pictures | :: | http://www.tvhgc.co.uk/photo_gallery/ |
| XC League | :: | TVHGC :: National |
06 / 04 / 2007 :: Combe Gibbet
| Name | :: | Reech |
| :: | rstiling _at_ blueyonder.co.uk | |
| Date | :: | 06 / 04 / 2007 |
| Direction | :: | North |
| Comments | :: | Fabulous day, loads of people out, well mannered in the air. Got mistaken for at least three other people which was a bit odd...... Bring it on!!!!! |
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| Pictures | :: | http://www.tvhgc.co.uk/photo_gallery/ |
| XC League | :: | TVHGC :: National |
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05 / 04 / 2007 :: Combe Gibbet
| Name | :: | sparky |
| :: | memberships _at_ tvhgc.co.uk | |
| Date | :: | 05 / 04 / 2007 |
| Direction | :: | North West |
| Comments | :: | a blue day, nice and sunny but roughly no wind and v little activity. loads out until ~4:30 then - where did everyone go? it got lovely later on! er, but still no thermals to speak of and then the light wind went totally W. Fun with 2 wings and 3 pilots then a beer when it was dark. maybe better but busier tomorrow?... |
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05 / 04 / 2007 :: Combe
| Name | :: | Jamie Glendinning |
| :: | Jamie _ Glendinning _at_ work 2 fly . co . uk | |
| Date | :: | 05 / 04 / 2007 |
| Direction | :: | Other! |
| Comments | :: | Got to combe around 18:00 very little wind. Did t2b on my Mac Velvia as Sparky and Richard had a shot on the tandem. Then had a couple of goes on the tandem myself. 1 good landing - 1 not so good. it's a weebit different from flying a solo glider. then proceeded tot he swand for a quick beer. grand start to the weekend. |
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| Pictures | :: | http://www.tvhgc.co.uk/photo_gallery/ |
| XC League | :: | TVHGC :: National |
