Free Flying on The South Downs
Local Meetings
No glynde coaching meting - Happy Christmas!
Event type:
Local Meeting
Start date:
Thursday, 29 December, 2011 - 18:00
No glynde coaching meting - Happy Christmas!
Glynde coaching meeting - Pilot Lecture session 1 - meteorology
Event type:
Local Meeting
Start date:
Thursday, 24 November, 2011 - 18:00 to 21:00
Glynde coaching meeting - Pilot Lecture session 1 - meteorology
Glynde coaching meeting - new and old pilots - how can we get on together?
Event type:
Local Meeting
Start date:
Thursday, 27 October, 2011 - 20:00 to 23:00
Rob Chisholm is giving the talk this month. Please turn up (and apologies to those who did turn up last time, to a no-show). Give him a round of applause, or throw a few brickbats. And have a few beers while you're at it, too.
1. Safety
2. Understanding the Air
3. How to use the Air
4. How to maximise your air time
5. How to fly stress free
6. Flying etiquette for Low Air Time pilots
7. Flying etiquette for High Air Time pilots!
8. How to set and achieve goals
9. Wrap-up
Where? Usual place, at The Social Club, Glynde
Glynde social and coaching meeting
Event type:
Local Meeting
Start date:
Thursday, 29 September, 2011 - 20:00 to Friday, 30 September, 2011 - 00:00
Apologies for late notice - I overlooked this in my panic preparations to go to India.
This week is a social gathering and open forum to discuss any issues you would like to.
All the best,
Dave
Glynde Coaching Meeting - Best places in the Alps book launch and Mountain Flying Seminar
Event type:
Local Meeting
Start date:
Thursday, 25 August, 2011 - 20:00 to 23:00
Tandem Greg is launching a new book - the Best Flying Sites of the ALPS. He's also going to tell us all about mountain flying. If he's not said it all already I'll finish with a mountainous version of parts of the thermalling workshop we've done previously, but from a Himalayan headbangers perspective.
It promises to be a good one, CU there.
Dave
Glynde Coaching Meeting - Flight analysis session - meet the Coaches
Event type:
Local Meeting
Start date:
Thursday, 28 July, 2011 - 20:00 to 23:00
This month in the Drinking Men's Club we'll have the coaching team on hand to help with any flying related issues. It's peak flying season and I'm sure we all finish a flight happy, but if you're like me, also pondering how it could have been better / higher / further / more comfortable. This month we'll try to answer some of those questions.
If you've got (short) films or GPS tracks of your flight, we can take a look and provide constructive criticism. (Anyone got a beamer? or we can use the club TV).
If you've got suspect equiptment, bring it along and we'll check it out.
Meet at the club for 19.30 for a better flight tomorrow.
All the best
Dave
Glynde Coaching Meeting - Rod Buck on Weather and the Wendy Windblows Service.
Event type:
Local Meeting
Start date:
Thursday, 30 June, 2011 - 20:00 to 23:00
Rod Buck, the man behind the Wendy Windblows sevice will be coming to tell us about the enhanced weather station system. A short presentation followed by discussion. I'm looking forward to how he's calculating data for each site when it's sea-breezing from 3 different directions at once! Like the sevice itself, I'm sure knowledge of it's operation will save us vast amounts of wasted time and petrol.
I want to come and explain a lot of the major improvements to the Wendy
Windblows network that are happening at the moment.
These include:
1) Direct readings for each flying site, adjusted automatically to calculate
the differences from the weather stations.
2) Automatic Wind Alerts when it's flyable at your favourite sites.
3) Members can easily pass messages to groups of members, such as those
interested in a site, those in a particular club, or a special-interest
group, such as competitions, or indeed any special-interest group they care
to create. (Such as a paragliding school wanting to bulk-text it's pupils
about whether it's flyable today? Grin!)
4) You can obtain wind reports for any site (or group of sites) by text
request.
5) Phone reports no longer need a password.
best wishes
Rod
Glynde Coaching Meeting - Thermalling and Meet the Coaches
Event type:
Local Meeting
Start date:
Thursday, 26 May, 2011 - 20:00 to 23:00
Come to Glynde for a delicious beer, to meet the coaches and discuss thermalling techniques, including: Thermalling safely, thermalling efficiently and thermalling with others. We'll try to cover everything you need to know between ground and cloudbase.
Thermalling 101 - monthly coaching meeting
Event type:
Local Meeting
Start date:
Thursday, 31 March, 2011 - 20:00 to 23:00
Dave Massie and John Lancaster will be doing a session on thermalling - an introduction and the joys of spring thermals.
Thursday 31 March
Social club in Glynde.
7.30pm
Glynde social meet - Carlo on where to fly when, why and how.
Event type:
Local Meeting
Start date:
Thursday, 27 January, 2011 - 06:00 to 20:00
With flying weather coming soon, Carlo will be discussing how to make the most of it.