Highest Flying Gliding Club in England 2010!
About Our Club
We fly from Currock Hill 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 October to December 2011
Attached is the duty rota for October to December 2011
Submitted by Webmaster on Fri, 09/12/2011 - 13:29
Squeaky Clean Club
High winds and bad weather prevented members from flying this weekend, however rather than going home everyone pulled together and given the club house and hanger a major clean up. All un-needed and un-wanted item were let go to make room for the useful items, the hanger doors were washed down and the walls painted.
Submitted by Connor Richardson on Sun, 11/09/2011 - 21:55
Autumn wave on its way?
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We had a good day in wave on Saturday despite the poor weather forecast putting a lot of people off. I had two flights with a couple of friends which reached 11000' and ~8500', and Colin Sword had another good flight climbing to over 10000' on a spinning exercise with Eddie Stephenson in preparation for his full cat.
With the wave season fast approaching can I ask everyone to think about taking a logger with them when they fly? The BGA are wanting as many flights as possible to be submitted to the BGA Ladder that go above FL100 so that they can prepare a case for EASA to abandon the mandatory use of transponders above FL100 from 2012 onwards.
Submitted by Rob Rose on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 09:26
First solo for Terry Collinson
Congratulations to Terry Collinson who went solo at Portmoak during the club's annual expedition. Terry used a poor soaring day to his advantage, sticking to circuit work and simulated cable breaks. Instructor Dave Osborne eventually climbed out and watched Terry fly a textbook circuit followed by a greaser of a landing. I'm sure all the hassle of towing the Puchacz to Portmoak seems worthwhile now! Well done Terry.
Submitted by Jamie McGregor on Mon, 29/08/2011 - 10:28
Club Ladder Update
May and June club ladder updates now online... If you don't feature on it - why not?!
Submitted by Rob Rose on Sat, 30/07/2011 - 19:57
