Southern Hang Gliding Club

XC to Asda

Youngie — Tue, 19 May 2026 03:17 BST

Flight Diary from Youngie:

Date of Flight: Thu, 2 Apr 2026
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG

XC to Asda

Combe to Dyke fail

Steve Purdie — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:49 BST

Flight Diary from Steve Purdie:

Date of Flight: Thu, 26 Mar 2026
Site: Combe Gibbet
Wing: PG
Flight with 1 turnpoint
Landing: Amberley
XC Distance: 88.27 km

Failed Flight to goal

A strange day with wave clouds

John mcb — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 08:23 BST

Flight Diary from John mcb:

Date of Flight: Sun, 11 Aug 2024
Site: Mendlesham
Wing: HG
Open Distance XC
XC Distance: 11.30 km

The day started with a steady 8 -11mph wind straight down the E-W runway. While rigging, it quickly became apparent that it would be an interesting day for flying or, worse, flying for the day would be over. It was sweltering hot with a clear blue sky and the wind started to switch around as the sun heated the ground. The general wind direction had switched more SE to S, but at times was switching to NE. I took the first line and launched into a steady S wind, at 90 degrees to the runway. The tow-up was very slow and I barely got to 600ft ATO. The ride back to launch was in sinking air and I barely made it back. Two other pilots followed me with a similar flight back to launch. The second flight again much the same, back to launch in no time. By this time streets of wave clouds had started to form 90 degrees to the general wind direction. Clipped in for 3rd flight and decided to fly toward the farm to the south of the launch. The sink wasn't as bad this time and I gradually found some weak lift. I persisted with the weak lift and was slowly going up, drifting toward Mendlesham mobile tower. The tower was getting closer and looking like I didn't have enough height to clear it. I was determined not to lose the thermal and remained focused on flying, and not the tower. I eventually cleared the tower but not by much height. Drift and, climbing was slow but the lift was relatively consistent. As I climbed nearer to cloud-base lift became more broken and turbulent. Over Mendlesham village at around 3000ft, I went on a glide but found nothing but sinking air. North of Bacton village, I hit some lifting bubbling air. The cores were small and I was struggling to maintain height. I stuck with it for about 8 minutes and was getting closer to the high-voltage pylons. The field behind the pylons had hay bales scattered all over, so decided the best option was to land in the cropped field in front of the pylons.

Following the Big Guns

Steve Barnett — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 08:56 BST

Flight Diary from Steve Barnett:

Date of Flight: Tue, 25 Jun 2024
Site: Bo Peep
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 60.54 km

I only live 15 minutes from Bo Peep on the South Downs and thankfully it@@@s one of my favourite sites. It requires a North Easterly wind and generally provides decent thermals before turning East.

It was relatively busy on launch with a number of pilots planning to head West in search of some decent distance as well as enjoying the beauty of the South Downs below.
I had been dropped off by my wife and told her I intended to fly the short distance home to Seaford around midday! We had been looking after our Granddaughter and were due to drop her back home that afternoon. One good climb out in a decent thermal would give me the altitude to drift home using the North Easterly. What could go wrong!
I launched at 10.20 and soon found some half decent thermals to get above the crowded sky below.
Three Spitfires passed to our North heading towards Cuckmere Haven. What a fantastic sight and beautiful sound.
As I flew towards the car park I noticed Hugh Miller preparing to launch his yellow Zeno 2. When Hugh is on the hill you know you@@@re in the right spot.
Dave Newns was flying out front on a tandem with Bo and was marking the better lift.
Myself and a number of others joined him and were soon established in a comfortable thermal that was taking us skybound at a decent rate. I was in the air above one of my favourite sites with some of my best paragliding buddies. Pete (Boomerang) Lacey, Steve Purdie, Marcin Bara, Pete Impey, Olly Sherratt, Owen Latham and Grita all in the air just below Hugh Miller and Mark Watts. What a fantastic feeling.
It was at this point I got literally carried away with the moment and my potential paragliding adventure overtook my duty as a husband and Grandad! I was mesmerised and totally consumed with the XC flight that was happening in front of me.
Thankfully I@@@d tuned my radio to the same frequency as Hugh and Mark and could hear their chat and instructions to each other. Some of this was invaluable during the critical early stages of the flight.
After topping out around 3000@@@ I joined the gaggle led by Hugh and Mark towards Lewes.
I could see that they had found a decent thermal in the distance so pushed on bar and headed in their direction. Confirmation over the radio confirmed they@@@d found a weak thermal that the rest of us were heading towards. My Alpina 4 cut through the air nicely and seemed to stay slightly higher than my pals. Possibly just a lucky lifty line that I chose.
This got me to the rising air slightly sooner than the rest of group. I noticed a gull climbing to my right so passed the info to the gang and soon got established in a decent climb.
Unfortunately Boomerang Pete didn@@@t quite make it and landed below us. Grita and Marcin were also pretty low and I wasn@@@t sure if they could hook up to the climb.
I noticed Olly was pretty high on his red Gin Leopard and doing well trailing Hugh and Mark. I was now flying with Pete Impey. I was in good company as Pete has a good history of long XC flights from the Southern sites.
We continued West along the South Downs over the Brighton Football stadium and towards Ditchling Beacon.
I took a more direct line to the Beacon and Pete veered more on a line towards Devils Dyke. As soon as our paths differed I started to gain height and noticed Pete rapidly heading down. Pete continued towards Truleigh but unfortunately never got the climb he was looking for and landed near Small Dole.
Probably frustratingly for Pete I got a good climb directly above where he landed.
As I was 360ing I noticed a wing behind me to the East that appeared to be doing well. I took this climb lazily to its peak to enable the pilot behind me to catch up. It was Marcin. He@@@d done extremely well as previously I@@@d seen him low with Grita and thought he may have landed.
Marcin gained height to my level just over 4000@@@ and we glided West towards Steyning then Storrington.
This part of the flight was so rewarding as the air was smooth and we managed to take a few pics of each other. Good times. As I was forwarding the photos to Marcin and others I noticed a message on my phone. It was from my wife informing me that our granddaughter didn@@@t have to go back to my Daughters until later that evening. Awesome news and lucky me!

We picked up a few more good thermals and everything seemed pretty comfortable. Marcin then drifted further North and started to lose altitude. He was only a hundred metres away from me but appeared to be in completely different air. I was more than comfortable around 4500@@@ and I could see Marcin drift down eventually landing near Pulborough after a 53km flight.

As Marcin was heading down I was joined by a pilot on a paramotor. This was a first for me. I@@@ve had encounters with light aircraft, sailplanes, military aircraft and helicopters but never a paramotor. He was around 1000@@@ feet below me and I was in a good climb so he took a few minutes to get to my altitude to say hello. He completed his task and buzzed off to the North West.

As I was now out of company I decided to turn around and attempt to fly home as promised to my wife earlier. She however wasn@@@t expecting me to be 45 kilometres away! Nor had I intended to be. It just happened!

The first ten kilometres heading East were relatively easy as the climbs were high and glides long and fairly fast into the light headwind. Just as I was approaching Steyning the sun dimmed behind the clouds and my altitude started to drop. I decided to glide North East towards land that was being warmed. I probably should have gone South East into possible convergence over the Downs.
Anyway it was a glide all the way down landing a few hundred metres from where Pete Impey had landed an hour or so earlier.
So 60km in total and one of my favourite ever flights. The company in the sky was fantastic.
I packed up my kit a happy man and phoned Julie letting her know I hadn@@@t quite managed to fly home. Oops. As you can imagine she wasn@@@t quite an ecstatic as me. Anyway a bunch of roses, steak meal, wine and her favourite ice cream later did the trick and she hasn@@@t burnt my kit, yet.
Congratulations to Hugh, Mark and Olly for their amazing flights. It was a privilege flying part of the same route as them. It gave me a huge understanding of their skill, experience, perseverance and professionalism. We are so lucky to have these guys in our club.

Arvydas Matuzas

Harrymatuzas — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 08:58 BST

Flight Diary from Harrymatuzas:

Date of Flight: Sun, 9 Jun 2024
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG

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Arvydas Matuzas

Harrymatuzas — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 08:24 BST

Flight Diary from Harrymatuzas:

Date of Flight: Sun, 9 Jun 2024
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG
Open Distance XC
Landing: 50.880603 000.308297
XC Distance: 37.22 km

38km

Skytraxx

Geoff — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00 BST

Found from Geoff:

grey colour, looks like a Skytraxx 5

Close but no cigar (ice-cream) 101km flight Caburn to (almost) Margate

james_wong — Mon, 27 May 2024 04:21 BST

Flight Diary from james_wong:

Date of Flight: Sat, 25 May 2024
Site: Mount Caburn
Wing: PG
Open Distance XC
Landing: Gore Street
XC Distance: 101.24 km

I hadn't planned to go XC but finding myself above Glyndebourne and reassured by the company of Ashley Barnes & James Chancellor - both experienced XC hounds - I decided to give it a go.

The first part was blue sky thermalling so I was glad to be in a gaggle to spot the elusive lift areas.

I managed stay above 3000 feet for most of the flight, topping up on 0.5 or even zeros. We spread out and spotted climbs for each other all the way to Ashford where we split up.

I could see Ashley on great buoyant line heading towards Canterbury and rather than find the same line, I gained some more height, and Ashley was nowhere in sight when I finally set off on glide again.

I could spot James on my Oudie and although he had good height, he was about 5 km behind so I cracked on solo.

I stayed in the middle band of cloud that was about twice the height of the Seabreeze front coming off the north coast of Kent. It was dark and wide but not too 'sucky' so I never got anywhere close to being hoovered up.

After Canterbury it opened up into a different sky. Blue mostly. with Seabreez whispers to the north and south and some light CU between.

Looking at the forecast later on, it may had been wise to just hang under the previous clouds and wait for more development and for the northerly Seabreeze to be pushed back again. I'd seen some soaring birds (brown and white and not sure what they were) that gave some encouragement but the ones I saw were just transitioning. None of them circled.

Well, I struggled for lift from 25km out from Margate and met an ever increasing headwind, about 14km when I landed. Looking at the forecast post flight, I see I could have either waited or gone further South and along the East coast - perhaps this would have been better...

Anyway, down at 101km about 10km short of goal and I was chuffed!

Short trek along A140

John mcb — Tue, 21 May 2024 15:46 BST

Flight Diary from John mcb:

Date of Flight: Sat, 4 May 2024
Site: Mendlesham
Wing: HG
Open Distance XC
XC Distance: 13.56 km

Second tow flight of the day. Most pilots were having short flights and the day was not exactly promising for any XC flights. The tow up to 700ft ATO was relatively smooth and I was expecting another short flight back to Take-off. I flew beyond the winch to an approaching cloud shadow and found some weak lift. Stayed with it as I drifted back toward TO, at which point was now 1300ft. Continued drifting towards Mendlesham mast and eventually reached cloud around around 3400ft where the lift died out. Went on a glide, expecting some lift over brown fields but nothing until I approached Yaxley, down to 600ft found some weak lift in front of the village but was drifting towards the high power lines and not gaining much height. Landing options beyond the power lines were not not suitable for a hang glider, so decided to land in the only viable field to the west of the village.

Bo Peep to Seaford Head beach

Bendavidson — Sun, 19 May 2024 10:41 BST

Flight Diary from Bendavidson:

Date of Flight: Sun, 19 May 2024
Site: Bo Peep
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 11.16 km

Lovely sunny Sunday - small window of flyable or after four hours parawaiting, managed to get away @@@@

Vision Express sun glasses

Dave H — Sat, 18 May 2024 00:00 BST

Lost from Dave H:

Vison Express reactolite Sunglasses in black soft Case

Personal best from Blorenge

Bendavidson — Mon, 13 May 2024 23:51 BST

Flight Diary from Bendavidson:

Date of Flight: Sat, 11 May 2024
Site: Blorenge
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 48.30 km

First round of the BCC last weekend with a SE from Blorenge, near Abergavenny - was aiming for Aberystwyth and made it halfway, to Builth Wells @@@@

Parham O&R

Steve Purdie — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:31 BST

Flight Diary from Steve Purdie:

Date of Flight: Thu, 18 Apr 2024
Site: Ditchling
Wing: PG
Out and Return
XC Distance: 50.24 km

Out & Return to Parham.
Struggled to get further so decided to come back instead. Pushed too hard from north of the Dyke back to wards Ditchling ridge. Should have dropped south to the Dyke where there was an obvious climb, but thought I would get up at Clayton under a similarly excellent looking cloud. I didn't ;0)

First 50km

jhobbs — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 08:17 BST

Flight Diary from jhobbs:

Date of Flight: Sun, 14 Apr 2024
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 50.37 km

DDK

black winter gloves with red bits

Hairy Dave — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 00:00 BST

Found from Hairy Dave:

prescription sunglasses. brown frames

Hairy Dave — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 00:00 BST

Found from Hairy Dave:

New PB and expensive retrieve via London Victoria

Steve Barnett — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 12:52 BST

Flight Diary from Steve Barnett:

Date of Flight: Sat, 30 Mar 2024
Site: Mount Caburn
Wing: PG
Open Distance XC
XC Distance: 69.73 km

Still buzzing from flying my new PB.

Due to helping with coaching LATs I launched from Mount Caburn almost an hour after the majority of the usual suspects who were hoping to go XC. This may have been a blessing in disguise as some of the early starters were possibly disappointed with their short flights.

I hit a good thermal within a couple of minutes of launching and climbed out together with one of the LATs (Will) who I'd been coaching!

He left the thermal at around 1500' and I continued in the smooth lift to Cloudbase at about 2000'. I pushed out in front of the wispy cloud and continued to return to the lift until reaching the North Eastern side of Ringmer past the gliding airfield.

I'd seen a couple of wings in the distance so hooked up with them. I was pleased to find out that it was Dan and Ollie Peters who'd I'd chatted to on the hill earlier and have previously flown with. Unfortunately I couldn't speak to them on the radio as I was on a different frequency.

Anyway we soon started working well together and found some decent thermals above a couple of sailplanes. I'd flown this route heading North East towards Heathfield two weeks ago with Carlo from FlyBubble and this experience proved really helpful.

After topping out around 2500' in another smooth thermal I decided to glide toward the far side of Heathfield. I was searching for lift in the area where I'd hooked up with a good thermal when I flew with Carlo.

It worked and I found some good lift and was getting back up to a comfortable altitude.

Unfortunately the other guys had chosen different routes and their flight ended near Heathfield.

Every now and then I could see a few wings in the distance so I knew something decent was possible.

I had a couple of lowish saves with the most stressful around 400'. On that occasion I was assisted by a couple of birds of prey who after playing around eventually showed me where the nearby thermal was.

I continued by myself on my XC adventure continually finding good lift and keeping below the 3500' airspace. I had joked with some of our guys earlier about flying to the Isle of Sheppey and had actually set Rainham as a goal!

I could see Ashford to my right and London in the distance to my left. After navigating past the Headcorn airspace I made the decision to head North East with the wind towards Rainham. The isle of Sheppey was directly in front of me and getting bigger all the time!

The kilometres were clicking up quickly on Flyskyhy and I was now past my previous PB of 62km set from Worcester Beacon to Pandy last year.

Unfortunately the thermals were starting to become more difficult to find and I knew my XC adventure would soon be over.

With both the Isle of Sheppey and Rainham agonisingly close I landed in a soggy ploughed field a few kilometres short of Faversham.

As I was packing up and busy replying to messages from the paragliding gang I was met by Paul who had watched my decent whilst flying his model aircraft nearby.

He was good enough to drop me at Faversham Station whilst we chatted about why the thermals weren't as good locally as he'd expected. That made me feel slightly better about not making my goal.

This was was only my second flight and first XC on a newly acquired Ozone Alpina 4. I've a feeling we're going to be good friends.

As well as my new PB it was also my costliest retrieve via Victoria Station.

I can honestly say it was worth every penny of the fare.

Mt Caburn -> home

guy_impey — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 13:11 GMT

Flight Diary from guy_impey:

Date of Flight: Sat, 16 Mar 2024
Site: Mount Caburn
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 15.07 km

Mt Caburn -> home

Go Pro Hero 11 Black on a clip

TrevorBeeby — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 00:00 GMT

Lost from TrevorBeeby:

I lost my Go Pro launching at Newhaven yesterday.

Radio

Si — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00 GMT

Found from Si:

Green Sussex paragliding woollen hat

Si — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 00:00 GMT

Found from Si:

Sussex paragliding & green

Dyke

Simon P — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 01:04 GMT

Flight Diary from Simon P:

Date of Flight: Sun, 14 Jan 2024
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG

Dyke

Caburn

Simon P — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 01:44 GMT

Flight Diary from Simon P:

Date of Flight: Tue, 18 Jul 2023
Site: Mount Caburn
Wing: PG

Cab

Dyke

Simon P — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 01:41 GMT

Flight Diary from Simon P:

Date of Flight: Thu, 3 Aug 2023
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 7.62 km

Dyke

Peep

Simon P — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 01:20 GMT

Flight Diary from Simon P:

Date of Flight: Fri, 19 May 2023
Site: Bo Peep
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 14.45 km

Peep

Peep

Simon P — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 01:17 GMT

Flight Diary from Simon P:

Date of Flight: Fri, 19 May 2023
Site: Bo Peep
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 14.45 km

Peep

Dyke

Simon P — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 01:12 GMT

Flight Diary from Simon P:

Date of Flight: Sun, 15 Oct 2023
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 12.78 km

Dyke

Dyke

Simon P — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 01:10 GMT

Flight Diary from Simon P:

Date of Flight: Sun, 15 Oct 2023
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 10.37 km

Dyke

Dyke

Simon P — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 01:07 GMT

Flight Diary from Simon P:

Date of Flight: Sun, 15 Oct 2023
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 10.59 km

Dyke

Dyke

Simon P — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 01:06 GMT

Flight Diary from Simon P:

Date of Flight: Sat, 25 Nov 2023
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 7.46 km

Dyke

Firle

Simon P — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 01:03 GMT

Flight Diary from Simon P:

Date of Flight: Sat, 25 Nov 2023
Site: Firle
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 15.97 km

Firle

Dyke

Simon P — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 01:01 GMT

Flight Diary from Simon P:

Date of Flight: Tue, 28 Nov 2023
Site: Beachy Head
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 9.53 km

Dyke

Ditchling

Simon P — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 00:37 GMT

Flight Diary from Simon P:

Date of Flight: Fri, 1 Dec 2023
Site: Ditchling
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 15.39 km

Ditchling

Firle

Simon P — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 00:34 GMT

Flight Diary from Simon P:

Date of Flight: Fri, 1 Dec 2023
Site: Firle
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 7.91 km

Firle

Firle

Simon P — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 00:28 GMT

Flight Diary from Simon P:

Date of Flight: Fri, 1 Dec 2023
Site: Firle
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 12.42 km

Firle

Dyke

Simon P — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 01:34 BST

Flight Diary from Simon P:

Date of Flight: Sun, 15 Oct 2023
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 10.37 km

Dyke

Xc

Youngie — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 15:21 BST

Flight Diary from Youngie:

Date of Flight: Thu, 14 Sep 2023
Site: Eyam
Wing: PG

Xc

Xc

Youngie — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 15:19 BST

Flight Diary from Youngie:

Date of Flight: Thu, 14 Sep 2023
Site: Eyam
Wing: PG

Xc

Xc

Youngie — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 15:05 BST

Flight Diary from Youngie:

Date of Flight: Sun, 19 Mar 2023
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG

Xc

Xc

Youngie — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 14:52 BST

Flight Diary from Youngie:

Date of Flight: Sun, 19 Mar 2023
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG
Open Distance XC
Landing: Rottingdean

Xc

Small triangle

Youngie — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 14:40 BST

Flight Diary from Youngie:

Date of Flight: Sun, 15 Oct 2023
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG
FAI Triangle
Landing: Devils dyke

Triangle

Small triangle

Youngie — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 14:38 BST

Flight Diary from Youngie:

Date of Flight: Sun, 15 Oct 2023
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG

Small triangle

Firle to Seaford for ice-cream

Bendavidson — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 14:07 BST

Flight Diary from Bendavidson:

Date of Flight: Sun, 15 Oct 2023
Site: Firle
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
Landing: Seaford Head
XC Distance: 11.61 km

Nice buoyant flight to Newhaven from Firle, still some height to burn and smooth conditions on arrival, so tracked along to beach to Seraford Head...

Dyke

Simon P — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 11:01 BST

Flight Diary from Simon P:

Date of Flight: Sun, 15 Oct 2023
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG
FAI Triangle
XC Distance: 8.72 km

Dyke

Oudie 5 XC

James Wilkinson — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 00:00 BST

Lost from James Wilkinson:

Left at Caburn landing/car park at w/e. Was on the grey box by the gate on Monday but not there by Wed, so someone has retrieved it and keeping it safe. Should be in its hard case.

Orientation flight - Krushevo

Bendavidson — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 23:48 BST

Flight Diary from Bendavidson:

Date of Flight: Thu, 27 Jul 2023
Site: Macedonia
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 21.63 km

Orientation flight 20k south from Krushevo

COMPUTER CRASHED DURING UPLOAD DAVE PLEASE DELETE THIS ONE

JBirchall — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 12:32 BST

Flight Diary from JBirchall:

Date of Flight: Fri, 21 Jul 2023
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: RW
Open Distance XC
Landing: 50.998894, 0.543212

I had been considering doing a flight home for some time and today managed to grow a pair and do it.
Conditions did not look encouraging for us two hangies at Dyke today. PGs were mainly low until gone 10:30. It went quite west and Dave and I almost didn't go. I took a last ditch punt and by a stroke of luck managed to get up. Thermals were quite slow but I eventually got to about 4000ft amsl and headed of towards Ditchling beacon and then to Lewes and then Ringmer flying just in front of the SBF. got low over Horam and had selected the playing fields as a landing but managed to get a low save around 800ft and climbed out to over 4000. Reached Bodiam with 3000ft amsl and then got some of the most certain climbs of the flight but this was just up the road from home and where I had intended to finish. Landed near the Castle about 150 m from Castle Inn where I went to await my retrieve. A great flight.

Devils Dyke to Bodiam (home)

JBirchall — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 12:00 BST

Flight Diary from JBirchall:

Date of Flight: Fri, 21 Jul 2023
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: RW
Open Distance XC
Landing: 50.998894, 0.543212
XC Distance: 57.84 km

I had been considering doing a flight home for some time and today managed to grow a pair and do it.
Conditions did not look encouraging for us two hangies at Dyke today. PGs were mainly low until gone 10:30. It went quite west and Dave and I almost didn't go. I took a last ditch punt and by a stroke of luck managed to get up. Thermals were quite slow but I eventually got to about 4000ft amsl and headed of towards Ditchling beacon and then to Lewes and then Ringmer flying just in front of the SBF. got low over Horam and had selected the playing fields as a landing but managed to get a low save around 800ft and climbed out to over 4000. Reached Bodiam with 3000ft amsl and then got some of the most certain climbs of the flight but this was just up the road from home and where I had intended to finish. Landed near the Castle about 150 m from Castle Inn where I went to await my retrieve. A great flight.

Trying out the Skywalk Mint at the Dyke

ChrisTownsend — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 14:36 BST

Flight Diary from ChrisTownsend:

Date of Flight: Thu, 29 Jun 2023
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG
FAI Triangle
XC Distance: 12.93 km

I had a second flight on the demo Skywalk Mint, courtesy of Airworks. Great day; loved the wing. I am going to buy one.

Evening flight at Blorenge

Bendavidson — Tue, 30 May 2023 00:50 BST

Flight Diary from Bendavidson:

Date of Flight: Tue, 23 May 2023
Site: Blorenge
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 9.23 km

90 mins in the air, first proper flight at Blorenge and on new wing, no vario initially until I remembered I had FlySkyHigh on my mobile

Failed small triangle

ChrisTownsend — Tue, 16 May 2023 09:54 BST

Flight Diary from ChrisTownsend:

Date of Flight: Tue, 16 May 2023
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 16.51 km

Lovely day. Rough low down; smoother and more organised higher up; big lift; big sink. Got drilled down to the ground heading back to take-off trying to close a small triangle.

1st Small xc of year at Firle

JBirchall — Mon, 08 May 2023 11:16 BST

Flight Diary from JBirchall:

Date of Flight: Tue, 25 Apr 2023
Site: Firle
Wing: RW
FAI Triangle
Landing: Firle
XC Distance: 18.28 km

Due to a frustrating start with a rigging problem, I thought I had missed the window. PGs had all come down and SBF looked close over the back. However two pg's took off and started to climb weekly so I went for it. Managed to get enough height to get back in on top if necessary but then started getting weak climbs that took me to over 3000ft amsl. Headed out towards Kittyhawk and just before it managed to climb to over 4000amsl where it was perishingly cold. Managed to maintain this height to Ripe and then headed over to Bo Peep to see what was going on there. Must have hit the convergence on the way as the lift became very stong even on a glide. Was getting quite cold by this time so climbed just north of Alfriston to 4200ft and then on to Alfriston. By this time really cold and and as I headed back towards firle on a fast glide I could hear vario showing I was getting significant lift so turned more inland away from SB to try and get down. Got down to 2000 ft just south of Middle farm where there was no more lift so headed back towards Firle. It was only when I was a few hundred yards out and down to about 1200ft that I could identify the Air Ambulance helicopter in landing field. There was little lift now and would have meant messing about in front of the hill to either try and get up and away or lose height for a landing at the bottom. As the rotors were still I decide that the best course of action was to get down as quickly as possible so descended as rapidly as possible. However the rotors started turning so I gave it as wide a berth as possible round the back and landed about 100 or so metres away up the hill. Filed incident report.

Bo Peep out and return 2

ChrisTownsend — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 12:08 BST

Flight Diary from ChrisTownsend:

Date of Flight: Tue, 25 Apr 2023
Site: Bo Peep
Wing: PG
Flight with 2 turnpoints
XC Distance: 9.36 km

Bo Peep out front and not quite back on top.

Bo Peep to Arlington Reservoir out and return

ChrisTownsend — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 12:00 BST

Flight Diary from ChrisTownsend:

Date of Flight: Tue, 25 Apr 2023
Site: Bo Peep
Wing: PG
Flight with 2 turnpoints
XC Distance: 11.97 km

Bo Peep to Arlington Reservoir out and return.

checking aispace

JTurczak — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 08:15 BST

Flight Diary from JTurczak:

Date of Flight: Sat, 22 Apr 2023
Site: Mount Caburn
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints

cheking if abust airapsce or not

Stanwell Tops out to Era beach and back

bgreenwe — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 13:59 BST

Flight Diary from bgreenwe:

Date of Flight: Tue, 28 Feb 2023
Site: Outside UK
Wing: PG

I upload this one as it may interest someone. I was visiting my son in Australia, he lives near south of Sydney Stanwell which is a popular coastal flying site. His family have a "surf shack" at a beach north of launch at Era so I fancied trying to reach it!
To my surprise and delight I did so on my first flight in Aus. Sea air and clear sky so not much lift about and relying mainly on ridge lift.
A beautiful coastal flight.

One R/H Montane glove/ mitt - dark blue (L)

Si — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 00:00 BST

Found from Si:

Dark blue right hand

High & Over - the new XC mecca!

SamTolton — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 05:49 BST

Flight Diary from SamTolton:

Date of Flight: Tue, 4 Apr 2023
Site: High and Over
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 70.82 km

The day was only supposed to be 2 stars on SkySight so I wasn't expecting much but within half an hour of launching I was already at 2,700' and bouncing along under the inversion so I thought what the hell, may as well give it a go.

There were a few wispy clouds just above the inversion so they guided me for most of the flight - any clouds forming up there must have some pretty strong thermals underneath to punch through.

A few KMs north of Truleigh I was pretty much decked in the sea air and my last chance was a bonfire - stupidly rough but I stuck with it and went from 140 feet above ground right back up to the inversion.

After that I had to head further north to try and avoid the sea air and so was under the 2,500' airspace. I had to escape from a few climbs on full bar to avoid busting airspace but when I finally made it to the 3,500' airspace the next proper climb I had only took me up to the inversion which was now lower at 2,300' - typical.

It was only a matter of time after that - with the inversion getting lower and the climbs getting weaker I landed in an extremely posh are of Haslemere. A fairly easy retrieve of a train to Havant and then along the coast to Seaford where Ghandi kindly gave me a lift back to my car. @@@@

First XC this year

Youngie — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 14:21 GMT

Flight Diary from Youngie:

Date of Flight: Sun, 19 Mar 2023
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
Landing: Rottingdean
XC Distance: 18.50 km

First xc for 4 years.

DD to Rottingdean

Miket — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 13:04 GMT

Flight Diary from Miket:

Date of Flight: Sun, 19 Mar 2023
Site: Beachy Head
Wing: PG

A cheeky little XC from DD to Rottingdean

XC season is here again!

SamTolton — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 05:52 GMT

Flight Diary from SamTolton:

Date of Flight: Sat, 11 Mar 2023
Site: High and Over
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 28.66 km

The high cloud blocking a lot of the sun didn't give me much hope for a good flight but SkySight said it was on so I gave it a go. I was the only person on launch and the wind had got quite strong before I managed to get set up. Once in the air it was a little bumpy but there was no lack of thermals and soon I was away from the hill and going up in a gentle 0.5 - 1.0 m/s climb. I stayed with the same bit of lift for half an hour(!) before gliding off to another likely looking cloud. I'm annoyed that I let a climb near the end slip through my fingers but it was quite windy by that point and it looks like I just wasn't pushing back into wind enough on every rotation. Ah well, lesson learnt.

Train to Lewes, bus to Seaford and then sitting around in a pub talking about our flights and laughing with my friends - overall a very pleasant day.

February soaring

Bendavidson — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 08:30 GMT

Flight Diary from Bendavidson:

Date of Flight: Sun, 5 Feb 2023
Site: Bo Peep
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 8.97 km

A little ridge run Bo Peep to Firle point

First XC of the year

Bendavidson — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 02:04 GMT

Flight Diary from Bendavidson:

Date of Flight: Sun, 5 Mar 2023
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 8.93 km

Surprising amount of thermal activity on a dull day - got to 735m and headed downwind - not smart enough to pick up much lift after that, but pleased to get away from the hill and down to Hollingbury, then hitch lifts back to DD :-)

Bo Peep to Beddingham

Bendavidson — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:49 GMT

Flight Diary from Bendavidson:

Date of Flight: Sat, 4 Mar 2023
Site: Bo Peep
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 7.98 km

Just a little ridge soaring along Firle from Bo Peep - first decent flight of the year

The Whole Ridge to Myself, Again.

Neville Styke — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 03:01 GMT

Flight Diary from Neville Styke:

Date of Flight: Sat, 25 Feb 2023
Site: Bo Peep
Wing: HG

First flight, the sky was overcast with disorganised thermals of moderate strength, at times. There were two of us flying then and, as a wintry shower was approaching, we both went to land but there was lift everywhere and I had to fly to west of the modellers bowl to find sink and come back to top land. Jose went out the front until he could find some sink, to allow him to bottom land. After the shower had gone through, the sky looked fantastic, with cloudbase at 3500' but the wind had picked up a little and no one else was launching. I launched in a lull and found that the thermals were very spring-like, organised and strong. With no one else in the air, I positioned myself under a cloud street and climbed to 1500' beneath it. I then dolphin-flew upwind, stopping to thermal up in a bit of 5-up to 2700' and then pushing forwards to north of the A27. I'd had the whole site to myself again but, just as I top landed, one other flexwing was taking off (see picture), so Neil had the ridge to himself too.

The whole ridge to myself; and on a sunny Sunday!

Neville Styke — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 10:04 GMT

Flight Diary from Neville Styke:

Date of Flight: Sun, 19 Feb 2023
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: HG

I took off from the paddock at 11:30 and floated around with a melee of P/Gs for seven minutes and then, as the wind was a bit west of north-west, I went down-wind to Newtimber, where I had the joy of complete freedom to turn in the thermals which ever side they were on and whenever I was in a core, as no other pilots came within 500 meters of Newtimber. There were some 4-up climbs and a few P/Gs went over the back from the Dyke, with Ked getting to ASDA. I had an enjoyable 50 minutes at Newtimber, with quite lively air (which made for an interesting landing approach), sometimes being able to look down on all the P/Gs still at the Dyke, until the thermals started to get more staid and I bottom landed by the Newtimber roundabout.

https://www.livetrack24.com/track/2332143

Going XC in January!

SamTolton — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 09:39 GMT

Flight Diary from SamTolton:

Date of Flight: Sat, 21 Jan 2023
Site: Bo Peep
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 26.83 km

Lovely fun little flight to Hove lawns. Hugh Miller and Ghandi were showing me the way. Lots of turning in zeros as expected but I reckon we could have got a lot further if it wasn't for the Shoreham airspace.

Cows

jancellor — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 03:54 GMT

Flight Diary from jancellor:

Date of Flight: Fri, 9 Dec 2022
Site: Firle
Wing: PG

Down-wind, north-south, or side-sun?

XC?

jancellor — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 02:36 GMT

Flight Diary from jancellor:

Date of Flight: Sat, 5 Nov 2022
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 8.73 km

Desperate for that "XC feeling", I took one glide towards home.

Mendlesham to near Aldeburgh

John mcb — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 05:35 BST

Flight Diary from John mcb:

Date of Flight: Sat, 8 Oct 2022
Site: Mendlesham
Wing: HG
Flight with 2 turnpoints
XC Distance: 33.06 km

Third flight of the day and expecting another short top to bottom. Just as I was getting ready to launch, the wind switched direction to almost 60 degrees on launch. Not a good time to launch but a cloud was developing nicely of the mast. Gave the "All out" call, tow up was lively, once off headed for the mast and instantly started turning in weak lift. Soon was at 2000ft+ at the back of the hanger. Darren Smith launch after me and soon joined at around 3500ft under base. I continued in a upwind direction of the cloud and Daren on the downside. Eventually lost sight of him but rejoined again after Debenham. We stayed together, marking lift for each other and often circling in the same thermal in close proximity until south of Marlesford. Landing options were starting to get less near the river Alde estuary, At 1500ft, picked the largest field North of Aldeburgh and landed. Darren could have made the coast but decided to land in the same field.

October xc

MarkR — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 10:54 BST

Flight Diary from MarkR:

Date of Flight: Sat, 8 Oct 2022
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 29.25 km

Light day so lucky to have got the initial climb

Skipping school

Andrew Craig — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 02:15 BST

Flight Diary from Andrew Craig:

Date of Flight: Wed, 28 Sep 2022
Site: Combe Gibbet
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 52.17 km

Testing my igc file...

Triangle

Youngie — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 11:59 BST

Flight Diary from Youngie:

Date of Flight: Wed, 28 Sep 2022
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG

Triangle

Triangle

Youngie — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 11:56 BST

Flight Diary from Youngie:

Date of Flight: Wed, 28 Sep 2022
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG

Triangle

Very small triangle

Youngie — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 13:29 BST

Flight Diary from Youngie:

Date of Flight: Sun, 25 Sep 2022
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG

Small triangle

Very small triangle

Youngie — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 13:28 BST

Flight Diary from Youngie:

Date of Flight: Sun, 25 Sep 2022
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG

Small triangle

Short XC

John mcb — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 13:53 BST

Flight Diary from John mcb:

Date of Flight: Sun, 25 Sep 2022
Site: Mendlesham
Wing: HG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 16.88 km

XC from Mendlesham

Dirty Dog sunglasses

Phil D — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:00 BST

Found from Phil D:

Caburn to Ashford

james_wong — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 04:30 BST

Flight Diary from james_wong:

Date of Flight: Sat, 23 Jul 2022
Site: Mount Caburn
Wing: PG

My first flight from Caburn beyond a one thermal flop

Caburn flop

MarkR — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 10:45 BST

Flight Diary from MarkR:

Date of Flight: Sat, 3 Sep 2022
Site: Mount Caburn
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 10.30 km

Low cloud, low flight, low distance

Slow drift

Garry Taylor — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 04:15 BST

Flight Diary from Garry Taylor:

Date of Flight: Fri, 26 Aug 2022
Site: Mount Caburn
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 13.24 km

Left the hill at only 1,200 but in a steady 2.0 m/s up following Gandhi and Ked. After a while they turned back, probably because above about 2,500 the wind, though very light, was NNW. I could see no activity on the Ringmer gliding field, but three loud blasts on an air horn, that seemed to come from that direction, made me change course and, as luck would have it, into another good climb. Wind proved too light and all over the place to make a lot of progress. Nice little flight though.

Flying under a low sky

MarkR — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 11:09 BST

Flight Diary from MarkR:

Date of Flight: Sun, 21 Aug 2022
Site: Mount Caburn
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 35.81 km

To follow

Bewl Water

jancellor — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 14:09 BST

Flight Diary from jancellor:

Date of Flight: Thu, 18 Aug 2022
Site: Mount Caburn
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 38.98 km

It was a fairly average Caburn day but thermals were coming through and up to a low base at 500m ish with very messy looking clouds. Time to land, so I took a climb over the back hoping Inga, having just packed up, would pick me up en route to the Windsock for lunch. But I was surprised how many weak climbs there were to keep me drifting along at an average of 3-400m until Heathfield. The first okay climb was at Mayfield to a whopping 800m. The sky began to clear and look half decent as in the landing photo. I'd love to see more flights under the 2500ft airspace to Uckfield, Crowborough, Tunbridge Wells, Guildford?

Malverns to Brecons

guy_impey — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 02:17 BST

Flight Diary from guy_impey:

Date of Flight: Sat, 13 Aug 2022
Site: Kettle Sings
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 57.69 km

Flight from Malverns to Brecons, landing in the black mountains. Nice walk out and hitch back to the car.

Reprise

David Williams — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 14:30 BST

Flight Diary from David Williams:

Date of Flight: Thu, 11 Aug 2022
Site: Kettle Sings
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 54.62 km

Caught out by a gust on launch, but a good flight after an inauspicious start.

Blue sky flying

David Williams — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 14:29 BST

Flight Diary from David Williams:

Date of Flight: Wed, 10 Aug 2022
Site: Kettle Sings
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 36.59 km

Blue skies and inversion; fairly rough.

Bo Peep Boat About

SamTolton — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 03:54 BST

Flight Diary from SamTolton:

Date of Flight: Sat, 6 Aug 2022
Site: Bo Peep
Wing: PG
FAI Triangle
XC Distance: 14.33 km

I couldn't go XC because we had some friends over who we haven't seen for 3 years so I just played around and managed to do a small triangle. I didn't look at the skew-t and so wasn't prepared for the 5 C temperature at base, brrrrr!

Zig zagging my way to the middle of nowhere

SamTolton — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 03:48 BST

Flight Diary from SamTolton:

Date of Flight: Thu, 4 Aug 2022
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 70.32 km

The wind was quite strongly coming from the NW the whole flight so it was a bit of a cross wind battle. My tracklog looks like a staircase seen from the side. Had a crazy rough low save from 400' above the ground at one point. Long retrieve by bus, train, train, bus, finally getting back to the Dyke at 8:30pm, five and a half hours after landing.

Too many beers on Thursday

Neville Styke — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 10:42 BST

Flight Diary from Neville Styke:

Date of Flight: Fri, 5 Aug 2022
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: HG
Flat Triangle
Landing: TQ 25744 10880
XC Distance: 11.21 km

Sara and Alex were out, kayaking, on Thursday and I (despite telling myself that I wouldn't) had a few pints whilst doing the cooking. I thought that it was going to be a bit rough on Friday and a settled stomach would be a plus. I wasn't feeling great during the drive to the Dyke and, sure enough, after 45 mins. in the air, with some 6-up climbs, I was feeling a little queasy and was feeling the need to get back on the ground. Later in the day, it was still rough but not much good, with several bottom landings, including mine. There was a nice spell in the early evening, for the P/Gs along the Truleigh ridge. I had some entertainment, whilst I was de-rigging in the bottom field, as I could watch two P/G pilots spending an hour and a half untangling a canopy from a bush, halfway down the bowl.

A reasonable innings

David Williams — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 09:57 BST

Flight Diary from David Williams:

Date of Flight: Thu, 4 Aug 2022
Site: Liddington
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 29.08 km

I was surprised to find myself all alone when I arrived at Liddington, but after an hour or so, two chaps arrived together. Their attempts to fly resulted only in short beats of the hill. Conditions were obviously not good. After a while, I decided it was looking a little better and worth getting the wing out. My first flight was a similar short, uncomfortable ride. The next attempt was initially equally uncomfortable soaring on the ridge, but it then gave me more height, and I decided to venture over the back while I was in rising air. I was really expecting a short flop, but I managed to stay with lift quite a while and the flight gradually developed into a decent and pleasant XC. The landing presented a return to the unpleasantness. but I got safely down in East Woodhay Cricket Club. A nice lady gave me a lift to Hungerford, where I booked into a hotel and waited for the bus back to Liddington 2 hours later.

Combe to near Blandford Forum in the blue.

richardlever — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 04:05 BST

Flight Diary from richardlever:

Date of Flight: Sat, 6 Aug 2022
Site: Combe Gibbet
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
Landing: Near Spetisbury
XC Distance: 89.75 km

A great flight with regular strong climbs to 5000+ft. Totally blue, but reliable thermals - the main challenge being not drifting back into Southampton/Bournemouth airspace. A couple of low saves, one over total boonies in the New Forest at 500' AGL - glad to escape!

A shame to have not made the coast having done the difficult bit. Great to be out though, with stunning views of the Solent and Isle of Wight shimmering in the sunshine.

Bo peep mini tour du lac triangle

Pete I — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 08:12 BST

Flight Diary from Pete I:

Date of Flight: Sat, 6 Aug 2022
Site: Bo Peep
Wing: PG
FAI Triangle
Landing: Bo Peep
XC Distance: 14.97 km

Once it got going, nicely thermic without ever getting mega. Found myself over Firle Beacon at over 3 grand and rather than push off to the West, decided a small triangle was more in order. Worked back to the lake, picked up a nice climb from a mix of the solar panels and/or the field to the N of the water up to around 3,600ft then pottered slowly back via the Long Man and Alfriston. Nice.......!

Pootle at Bo Peep

JBirchall — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 04:08 BST

Flight Diary from JBirchall:

Date of Flight: Mon, 20 Jun 2022
Site: Bo Peep
Wing: RW
Flat Triangle
Landing: bo peep
XC Distance: 17.07 km

Only 3 rigid wings. Things looked difficult low down after watching Dave not getting much above launch for about 20 mins. Took off and had the same difficulty for first ten or fiffteen minutes then managed to get a climb to over 3000amsl. It was then I heard the noise of engines and desperate looked around and above me. Eventually located 2 spitfires flying in formation passing below me by about 400 or 500ft.
Strong headwinds took glides down to 5 or 6 even on rigid.
After about an hour I tried to come in to land as it seemed like the sea breeze might soon come in but I could not get down below 1800amsl. Even with full flaps and pulling in hard I might get down to 1600 and then hit some lift and find myself back at 1800 again. This went on for some 15 minutes

small triangle at dyke

JBirchall — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 03:26 BST

Flight Diary from JBirchall:

Date of Flight: Fri, 5 Aug 2022
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: RW
Flat Triangle
Landing: 50.88291137167054, -0.2140720622396
XC Distance: 28.75 km

Very windy initially and climbs low down could be weak to moderate but above 3500amsl they could would go ballistic and disconcertingly rough. Looking at my vario post flight it seems the averager recorded a climb of 1250ft/min. Was not feeling very adventurous and did only a small triangle close to DD even so some of the sink holes made some of the glides a bit squeaky even on a rigid wing. Does not compare to what some of the PGs did from Wales today

Liddington to Goal in Petersfield

bgreenwe — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 08:45 BST

Flight Diary from bgreenwe:

Date of Flight: Fri, 5 Aug 2022
Site: Liddington
Wing: PG
Flight to Goal
XC Distance: 77.58 km

I drove so the team had a chance of flying back to East Sussex (Ash did).
So I set a goal at Petersfield knowing I@@@d have a chance of a train to Swindon and not get home too late to open a celebratory bottle or two.
There was a stiff breeze and we made rapid progress!

Made Declared Goal at Rye

bgreenwe — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 09:23 BST

Flight Diary from bgreenwe:

Date of Flight: Thu, 4 Aug 2022
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG
Flight to Goal
Landing: Rye
XC Distance: 69.25 km

To follow

To the coast

jancellor — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 08:39 BST

Flight Diary from jancellor:

Date of Flight: Thu, 4 Aug 2022
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
Landing: Rye
XC Distance: 76.87 km

A nice day with fairly strong climbs though a bit broken up. Several pilots went XC, some as far as Kent.

Mt Caburn to Ashford

Pete I — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 09:01 BST

Flight Diary from Pete I:

Date of Flight: Sat, 23 Jul 2022
Site: Mount Caburn
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
Landing: Ashford
XC Distance: 68.36 km

My contribution to the great club fly-in (or fly-out, rather) from Mt C. Off in the first mini gaggle with Andrew K and Hugh (who for some reason I thought was Adam.....). Very pleasant to get away from the melee at Mt C. An enjoyable trip across the countryside, nearly making an unscheduled stop at Tenterden, then wound off a couple of grand or more to land at Ashford and get a train back for an evening engagement. Many congratulations to all who pressed on to Margate and other points East, some scoring PBs in so doing.

Dyke to Burwash

Pete I — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 08:51 BST

Flight Diary from Pete I:

Date of Flight: Mon, 13 Jun 2022
Site: Devils Dyke
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
Landing: Near Burwash
XC Distance: 44.66 km

First XC on the Artik 6. Decided to keep clear of the SBF with only a couple of hours on the wing. A low save from a solar farm (thank you) but fizzled out as I approached Burwash

One thermal glide from Combe Gibbet

richardlever — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 16:50 BST

Flight Diary from richardlever:

Date of Flight: Sat, 9 Jul 2022
Site: Combe Gibbet
Wing: PG
Flight with 3 turnpoints
XC Distance: 13.45 km

Cored a nice climb to 4200' befoe it all blued out downwind. Should have stuck with a couple of weak thermals that I ignored in the hope of better stuff ahead.