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50th Anniversary Open Day - 11th August 2012
On the 11th of August Northumbria Gliding Club celebrate our first 50 years of flying at our airfield, Currock Hill. To mark this special occasion we would like to invite you to join us for a family open day!
It will be open to all past members and families are welcome, it would also be great to see as many of you here as possible. Glider flights and other activities are going to organised. We will also be organising an evening with entertainment and food laid on in the Hanger including a Hog Roast and hopefully live music.
Northumbria Gliding Club would also like to take this opportunity to ask any past members to contact John Allan, our chairman, to discuss arrangements / share stories of the early days of our club which we really would like to collect and compile in a club archive. John can be contacted on 07713 569 507, or by emailing priestfieldstables@btinternet.com
Submitted by Webmaster on Thu, 22/03/2012 - 15:17
About Our Club
We fly from Currock Hill just outside Newcastle and have one of the most modern fleets for a gliding club of our size anywhere in the UK. We have three SZD Puchacz two-seater composite training gliders for instructional and early solo gliding and a Grob Astir CS77 composite single seat glider for solo flights and cross-countries. We are well placed to benefit from soaring in the wave which often sets up over the Pennines on a south westerly wind; and our pilots also enjoy thermal soaring in the summer months.
Duty Rota for July to September 2012
Attached is the duty rota for July to September 2012
Submitted by Webmaster on Thu, 17/05/2012 - 11:21
Meteorology for Cross Country Soaring
A reminder for those of you wanting to attend a course on Meteorology for gliding, it starts at 1930L tomorrow night. Hope to see as many of you there as possible.
Submitted by Rob Rose on Tue, 15/05/2012 - 10:13
Rob Barret Gains CAA RT Licence
Congratulations to Rob Barret who has passed his written and practical exams to qualify him for the issue of a CAA RT Licence. Well Done Rob
Submitted by ctweddell on Sat, 28/04/2012 - 16:35
Malcolm Smith Now Qualified for RT Licence
Malcolm has now passed the written exam and qualifies for his CAA RT Licence. Well done Malcolm.
Submitted by ctweddell on Sun, 22/04/2012 - 14:38
RT Licence
CONGRATULATIONS to Malcolm Smith who has just passed his RT Practical Exam. Well Done Malcome
Submitted by ctweddell on Wed, 18/04/2012 - 20:24
Currock Hill Wave - time lapsed.
If any of you were struggling to understand how a wave bar can stay stationary even though there is a strong wind, perhaps this time lapse video that I took a couple of weeks ago might help. The camera is looking at the sky overhead the gliding club, towards the SW from Throckley.
The first half is taken earlier in the afternoon and is at recorded 16x, the second half much later on in the evening and is recorded at around 24x real time. As you can see, there is a strong W-SW wind, and the air is moving through the bar, but only the air at the top of its wave pattern condenses into cloud. It evaporates again as it cools and descends. The bars are orientated perpendicular to the wind.
Submitted by Rob Rose on Mon, 02/04/2012 - 12:48
More Paint on the Members Than on the Walls
Decoration work took a rapid acceleration towards completion this week with the lobby practically finished, however not without half the paint going on members, telephones, the floor and anything else that dared enter the clubhouse during the decoration.... Things are looking hopeful and our club should be finished in the next few weeks ready for the soaring season.
Well done and thank you to all who were Involved
Submitted by Connor Richardson on Thu, 29/03/2012 - 21:58
Sunday 11th March
More wave again on Sunday, although not has high as the last few weeks. It was an unusual day - the upper wind dropped off to around 5kts at 5000ft so the highest we got to all day was 3500ft, and the wave bars were unusually orientated SW/NE. Even so, all 13 launches enjoyed good soaring with Malcolm Smith and myself enjoying the longest flight of 1hr 20 (cut short by a queue of other pilots!) and we managed to push out to Hexham at 2000ft which was quite a different perspective in a very low (but reliable) wave system - usually out there the wave has you up at 8000' or more!
Also worth mention:
Submitted by Rob Rose on Tue, 13/03/2012 - 09:26
