It was a foggy start to the day at DSGC, with conditions taking a little while to improve. With a forecast of just 2 knots of wind, it was looking…

The Thursday forecast was for a lighter wind than Wednesday. The wind had proved too strong for safe flying on Wednesday so with a lighter wind hopes were high that…

A calm Saturday morning with autumn high pressure in place and therefore fog and no wind. A good group of members arrived anticipating that the fog would clear by late…

The final planned flying day of our week at the Long Mynd began as a bit of a damp squib, as Jack Sewell reports: “The day started when we walked…

Wednesday's forecast was almost right - apart from the wind direction, the cloudbase and the level of sunshine! The wind was more south than expected, the cloudbase was lower than…

Today we had the pleasure of meeting the duty instructor Mark (Butch) Butcher. Mark is a very experienced aerobatic instructor as Kai was able to confirm later in the day!…

At the start of the day we were up bright and early to rig the DG-505 and the day started with high hopes for a reasonable ridge day at the…

The forecast cloudbase confirmed that Monday would be the third consecutive non-flying day of the trip, but nevertheless we made the most of it. The plan was to go to…