David Bratt told me it was blowing 25 kts as I was about to launch.The paragliders were well gone and all I knew was that in less than 1 minute I was 500 ft above launch with the bar in heading away from the hill. The Eureka Tower elevator has a similar feeling except without [...]
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MHGC Newsletter 2010 Late Winter Edition
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We had a brilliant day yesterday. Around a dozen gliders with up to 8 in the air at any one time, friendly wedgies doing their usual aerobatics, grumpy magpies yelling, 15kts straight up the face and gentle winter thermals up to 800′ above launch. Everyone had great flights of between 30 minutes and 4 hours. [...]
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Hang Gliding 3 sisters. 11-7-2010
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Last night we held the AGM. If you weren’t there you may wish to know the results of the elections. President – Gabriel Toniolo, Secretary – Scott Rawlings, Treasurer – Noel Bear, Committee – Glenn Bachelor and Peter Cass, SSO – Peter Holloway, Newsletter Editor – Peter Davies, The Peter Bachelor Award was presented to [...]
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Discussion started on the club email forum (see <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mhgc/>) on the Wednesday, and the day was confirmed on the Friday. 6 pilots (2 that had never flown from the site) arrived and up the hill we went. Tim was keen for an exploratory sleddy as it was a touch on the light side. Tim packed [...]
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I went to Locksley today with Pete Holloway and Grant Heaney. I know what I’ll be doing this Spring.