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Landing at Doussard

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:07:43 GMT

A straightforward alpine landing at Doussard. Keep the speed up, and flare just before touchdown to land gently on your feet... takes a bit of time to adjust to this after typical UK top landing in strong conditions. Much to everyone's amusement I did a superman style faceplant first time I landed here....

Branscombe fly by

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:12:43 GMT

Flying past Branscombe takeoff. Almost perfect conditions and everybody in the air bombing up and down the Beer to Sidmouth run. As I had my family with me, I couldn't be as indulgent as usual and had to land.... they had an adventure getting down to the beach where I had bottom landed!

Flying to the Roc de Boeufs Annecy

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:01:48 GMT

Crossing the lake and getting into position for soaring up the Roc. On a typical thermic day you get a valley breeze blowing down the valley - right to left in this picture, so you can use this dynamic lift to soar up the right of the ridge even in the absence of any good thermals.

Flying Lachens

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:55:31 GMT

Flying at Lachens, France. Red/White glider is Martin's Airwave Logic .... a bit close as this a wideangle lens!!! Video capture from helmet cam.

Soaring at Combe Gibbet

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:45:13 GMT

Soaring at Combe, air to air photo from Sion. ...on the Airwave Wave, my first glider. Bought on eBay cheap!

Tom Arnold at Westbury

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:35:27 GMT

Tom in action at Westbury shot by Martin on video and then captured by me.... downsized for the web!

Tom Arnold at Westbury

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:35:27 GMT

Beautiful stills of film by Martin of Tom in action at Westbury. Downsized for the web!

On launch at Branscombe

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:30:59 GMT

On launch at Branscombe with the Sport3 and Supair. This is a lovely Condors only site that can handle a good range of wind directions, one of the reasons I joined the club! Bit of a trek across fields and through caravan parks to get there but worth it.

Flying over the Roc des Boeufs Annecy

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:01:48 GMT

Flying over the Roc des Boeufs Annecy. This is up at the 'second hump' . Eventually I dropped over this ridge and flew down over Entrevernes en route to Doussard. This isn't a good spot to catch a climb and after a couple of hours in the air I was lacking motivation to wait around for a passing thermal to come through to take me to the top of the Roc... next time!

Flying over a sailplane at Lachens

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:55:31 GMT

Flying in Lachens, over the maritime alps in France. Soaring above a sailplane getting close to cloudbase. Helmet cam capture.

Approaching Sermoneta

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:47:24 GMT

Pic from Chris Jones of Vincenzo Di Francesco (aka 'Vidimart' on the PG forum) climbing over Sermoneta. Beautiful thermal source!

Magic lift at Pandy

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:24:03 GMT

The crowd all floating around in the 'evening restitution' at Pandy, which seems to happen here later in the day. Anyway I'm no met expert, just enjoy flying in it. This picture is 1600x1200 so should fit your wallpaper on your PC nicely.

Thermalling over launch at Pandy

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:26:14 GMT

Nice day, although it took some time to develop and get lifty. Off to the north and capped by inversion over the hill at ~600ft ATO until about 2ish and then people started to occasionally gain height. Lots of heroic efforts to fly along Offa's dyke but the vast majority were stuck near launch. As I'm lazy I didn't fly till it was really on.

Magic Lift at Pandy

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:30:45 GMT

Late afternoon flying at Pandy.

Wrynose Pass

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:39:12 GMT

Pete (or Bill same glider!) taking a leisurely meander down the pass. No thermals to be found - surprisingly - and the rest of the lakes sites blown out. Amazing place to fly. As you'd imagine, wind direction has to be spot on for this to be soarable and around 2pm (or earlier) it usually sea breezes...launch is off to my left from the camera position.

Location is of course not Coniston but its the closest you can get with OVI!

Waving at the wrong person

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:37:55 GMT

The trouble is what with everyone wearing helmets and changing kit it can be easy to greet your fellow fliers when in the air and then suddenly realising it isn't who you thought it was! This is coming in to land at Combe, not a bad day at all but cloudbase rather low.

Leaving Tinto

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:22:57 GMT

It wouldn't be appropriate to have some pictures of paragliding without some of parawaiting. So here's a shot from half way up Tinto hill. Beautiful day but as you can see five pilots leaving walking down. Too strong by just a frustratingly small amount. One student had already sailed over the back and needed extracting from the barbed wire fence. Great thing about flying on scottish hills is that the heather is bouncy. From about 100ft above Tinto you can see both coasts: :-( not on this occasion