Clubs & Sites

A category for Soaring Clubs and Sites around the world. Add something about your favorite soaring place.

Chilhowee Cross Country and Team Flying Camp

99 Soaring Fans, This is Bravo Zulu                  7 September 2012 Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday were flying days.  So the camp was completed as planned.  Cloudy mornings preceded clearing to partly cloudy by 1300.  Wednesday and Thursday could be characterized as challenging since the ceilings were below 4000 feet MSL and the thermals were generally light. …

Chilhowee Cross Country and Team Flying Training Camp

99 Soaring Fans, This is Bravo Zulu   I am reporting from Chilhowee Glider Port, home of Chilhowee Soaring Association, http://chilhowee.com/   Like others,  I too doubted that the weather would hold good enough for a contest this past weekend, but I arrived Friday afternoon to prepare for the Region V contest and planned to stay over for…

June at the Yorkshire Gliding Club

As an introduction, the Yorkshire Gliding Club (YGC) was formed in 1936 at Sutton Bank in North Yorkshire, from the amalgamation of a number of smaller local clubs. The hill top site, with a claim to have the best view in all of the UK, has authenticated records of gliding activity from 1906 and today boasts a well-established gliding club that operates all year round except on Christmas Day.

Flying Day 11, December 2

It will help to understand today’s flight if you scroll down to the Introduction section below and look at the map of the 3 controlled airspaces. Essentially, 3 of us (myself, Ed Downham and Anders Anderson)  flew a task clockwise around the Bloemfontein TMA and down the narrow corridor between that and the TMA to…

Flying Day 10, December 1

Storms in the area so a rest day for most. I took a 1.8 hour local flight and went out to look at some landing places. Came back as a storm came in. Tomorrow should be a good day.People think that “flying in Africa” is like looking down on jungles and rhinos. It actually looks…

Flying Day 9, November 30

The confusion continued about the weather and so we decided on a 316 km triangle racing task that would keep us all reasonably close to the airport. However, several of us saw that conditions were better looking toward the second turnpoint so 4 of us decided to do the task in reverse order. It was…

Flying Day 7, November 28

After yesterday’s surprise storms none of us were very confident about the weather forecast and so the task today was designed to keep us reasonably close into the airport if storms developed again. I selected a 500km task from New Tempe up to Christiana, and then down to the diamond mine at Koffiefontein. At the…

Flying Day 6, November 27

We thought that today would be a great day so we had our pilot’s meeting an hour early with most of the gliders on the grid by 9:00 am. I declared an FAI type 750 km triangle (no leg less than 28%) with turnpoints at Klerksdorp and Reivelo. Each leg was about 255km. I launched…