After many years of service the old launch point bus has reached the end of the road, so a small team of volunteers were tasked with finding a replacement, and after couple of months of searching, they found an excellent new vehicle for the club. It’s a 3 litre Iveco, with space for 20 seats, …
For Simon, it was a day that had been circled on the calendar for months. Today was the day he would finally take to the skies alone. After countless hours of ground schooling, simulator sessions, and dual instruction flights, he was ready to experience the freedom of solo flight. As he strapped into the small …
Flora’s heart hammered against her ribs, a hummingbird trapped in a cage of exhilaration and trepidation. Today was the day, the day she would finally taste the sky, not as a distant dreamer, but as a fledgling aviator. Her trial flight in a glider awaited, a baptism by wind that promised to rewrite the contours …
Bluebell was our mainstay for instructing for many years, after she was supplied new in 1950 to Cambridge University Gliding Club (now Cambridge Gliding Club). (New price £587.0s.0d). She has racked up nearly 80000 (yes eighty thousand!) launches and something like 10500 flying hours. Since then, she has had various periods of little or no …
Dear All, Sue Bayford has asked that donations in Julian’’s memory be made to the club to help make provision for disabled or disadvantaged people so that they can experience gliding. We have set up an account where funds donated can be ring fenced for that purpose. Those attending Julian’s funeral will be able to …
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We are planning a ground school which will be of particular interest to early solo pilots keen to develop their soaring and cross-country skills.Gliding’s tradition of self-teaching of soaring skills can be a slow process. Many pilots (myself included!) take years to build up the knowhow and practical skills to soar reliably and go cross-country …
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Dear All, Simon and Richard will again be running their RT course leading to a formal CAA RT operators licence. This is becoming more and more important as we are encouraged to talk to more airfields and airports. The course will run for five consecutive Wednesdays at 19:30 in the club house starting on March …
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It is coming up to Inter Club League time, and we are putting together our teams for this years’ competitions. The Inter-Club League is a friendly competition among small number of nearby clubs (in our case: Gransden, The Gliding Centre – Husbands Bosworth and London Gliding Club – Dunstable). It is distributed over several weekends during the …
Dear All There are some exciting changes to the Single Seater Scheme for next year. The Discus, DM, is being refinished and will be returned to the club in January 2020. In addition, a second Discus is being acquired to replace the ASW24. Although a few of us will miss FLY, the conversion step required …
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As you are hopefully aware, the BGA collates the various bits of good practice guidance including relevant recommended practices that have been hard-learned over many years into a single publication titled ‘Managing Flying Risk’. This year, several topics have evolved resulting in further good practice guidance that also need to be ‘captured’ in the same place. …
At our meeting about Mutual Flying during the cloud rally we had a useful and lively discussion. Needless to say the audience was rather heavy on keen XC pilots, but since the rules state that both pilots should have a valid XC rating, maybe this was not too much of an issue. Chris …
