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Fantastic flights! Congratulations Jim and not forgetting Ali. Looking forward to the write up

How about the last weekend in August 27/28th. Always good Wx then!

Well done Gary,Jim and Ali for this weeks flights, inspirational stuff.!Watching from afar its great to see NHPC names moving up the xc league after so many years absence. Just waiting for the first one through 100k! Sure it won't be long.

BTW If paul or Kay ask, you ain't seen me right

Thats great news Alastair! Hope to see you out this weekend.

Have never heard John mention that flight, ever!

On a more serious note, I ask every year but any chance trying to
re-negotiate Loredenshaw until the end of May or so? It offers the best potential for a long XC from the Cheviots.

Amazing!

Hi Bill, you'd make a killing on the taxi's down here. They charge to come to your house first then the onward fare! Mentor was really nice to fly, the most popular make down here though is Swing gliders, particularly the Mistral 6 which is a very good looking machine(and nice colour scheme's!). Lar...

Bought a Gin Sprint but it's still in the UK so had a demo Mentor 2 yesterday. The shop only had the small size available(at the top of weight range +) which made the flying very sporty, was able to centre brilliantly! After not having flown for so long it would be difficult to give any meaningful r...

Finally got back into the air today after a lay-off of over a year! Fantastic days flying at Norma(south of Rome), first take-off turned left straight into a thermal with 20+ gliders!! Conditions today were similar to a uk summer with temperatures of 20C and pleasant thermal flying. Able to fly seve...

Thanks Gary, but I'm staying in the 1-2 category due to my infrequent flying.

Thanks Jan,

I'm home a couple of times per month so I'm able to pick kit up in the UK, but thanks anyway. Think you'd enjoy the flying down here by the look of it!

Password now working but not able to send or recieve pm's. Anyway thanks Neale, if you could give it to JW it would be appreciated. Anybody got a used 1-2 for sale(must be vvgc) and also which is the best lightweight harness around these days in terms of protection and build quality? Kay, how are yo...

Superb weather down in Rome have given me the urge to get started again asap! Alistair and Kay what do you the think of the Swift(especially in rough air!) as it's first on my shopping list?

Try Geoff Wilson. I believe he's been to a site near Alcudia. Mountains to the north end of the island are very impressive but I've never seen any paragliding there.

The airspace around Newcastle is designed to keep commercial flights inside controlled airspace at all times during departure and arrival.An encounter with a commercial flight would be unlikely providing you comply with the airspace restrictions. More importantly unregulated airspace between Newcast...

My views are on the private section.

Nice afternoons soaring at Catherine Cookson's monument, early birds had over three hours soaring in the morning!(but didn't get to the coast, obviously don't know how to fly the site!)

Can't see any name for our team, so how about 'Three men and a Babe eeeeeeee!' If no one objects

Thats the stuff

Think your getting yourself a bit mixed up Chris, don't forget your on the dream team No 1 priority XC, No 2 priority XC, No 3 etc,etc.. you get the idea!

Damn! Can only get the first four days off. Never mind, might have to join the second club trip in the Autumn.

Go on then- might even get round to posting my flights this year

Just found out it's been changed to Friday from Sat! Sadly can't make it now

You know you want to

Flown there several times in the past(1980's!). It's good when the wind is on the slope but will not tolerate any variance in direction or strong winds. Can be very turbulent mainly due to higher ground in front.

Looks to be still flyable as wind turbines are behind the hill.

looking forward to it!

I'm on for a short holiday (4 days?) in Annecy during April and game on for Bill's idea of Millau. Which month are you thinking of Bill?

Also Ron is suggesting the Ozone challenge.

Can we agree on a set of dates? Seem's it might have to be two club trips. Anyone got any ideas?

I can only go outside of the school summer holidays(mid-july to end of August)

When are we heading off for our club trip to France next year?(work wants to know my holiday request dates)