From Dave Reedie. A cold toes but great flying day, the shortest flight was 45mins and that was only because the snow moved in on us.There were only 10 of us John in his LAK, Alister in the LS7, Mike flew JRJ with Martin W, Steve M, Andy B and Dave Spencer while Roger [...]
From Martin Wilcox. The day dawned clear and bright; gratifying, since I had cleared my diary and signed-up on the strength of the BBC long range weather forecast on the 5th !. Safely at Camphill and top of the flying list, I found myself strapping-in to JRJ in the company of MikeArmstrong and rotating into [...]
Making a TV show just 'aint like it used to be Non Secondary Surveillance Radar Areas. An agreement (which refers to what are called NTAs, explained on the Airspace page, and which allow gliders without transponders to fly above FL100 up to FL195 in some areas) expires on 31 March unless a new agreement [...]
Another Flying Day! There have been few of these in the last few weeks, but there's a blog report of flying yesterday (Sunday) at this link.
Thanks At it's recent meeting the club committee recorded it's thanks to Paul Reavill for setting up replacement glider batteries and Dave Reedie for fitting a new air band radio into K8 CFF. Basic Inspector Ratings Gained - Congratulations to Colin Taylor and Mick Featherstone, assistants to Warwick Horne and Steve Benn in the aircraft [...]
More Simulator Demonstrators to be Trained John McKenzie reports: Seven intrepid souls have put themselves forward for simulator demonstrator training, to start later this month. As a consequence, the simulator will be seeing a lot of use at weekends, for a few weeks. Ten members already have the rating, which allows them to demonstrate flying in the [...]
Mike Bushell - The Movie Mike Bushell from the BBC tries his hand at gliding For those of you who missed the broadcast. you can find it at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33945275 Instruction is truly free - you just pay for each launch and the time you spend in the air. For a Junior, that's [...]
Mike Bushell from the BBC tries his hand at gliding BBC Sports reporter Mike Bushell came to the Camphill Vintage week on its 80th birthday to further the sport of gliding especially amongst the young. His Saturday Breakfast TV sport round-up on BBC1 will be aired in the next few weeks and [...]
Oh Look!! No Winch! June 19 - 26th Camphill Vintage Rally. Visitors Welcome. Why Not come and enjoy a great day out in the Peak district National Park
From Dave Salmon. Yesterday was probably the best flying day of the year to date and well worth the organisation of the additional day's flying. The 20 or so who came were rewarded with a soarable westerly, thermals, and wave to 4500. There were lots of soaring flights, both club and private, and several others [...]
