For the final day of flying Christian decided to show H5 Matt the glacier. Barre des Ecrins is a huge mountain in the Alps whose nort...

A very busy day at the Club today, nearly 20 people on the two-seater flying list and with good flying weather lots of private gliders too...

Standard protocol whilst flying in the southern French Alps is to use the thermals generated by the sun facing slopes. T he anabatic win...

The weather forecast suggested the potential for some flying at the end of the day, assuming the rain and low mist forecast for the morn...

Summer at last! - It was a lovely start this morning with light south westerly wind, warm sunshine and those lovely white puffy clouds. Fir...

A small band of regulars arrived today so the list was small and we were thin on the ground at the launch point. The weather was almost e...

With a call to action on Sunday by Pete B - (keen to spot a good day now he has finished his exams), a small group assembled  at North Hill...

Another BSD (Boring Sunny Day) in La Motte. Despite potentially the best forecast since we arrived and a twinkle in Christian's eye ...

There was a very long list with some partial hangovers, but flying got going quite quickly with several Instructors joining in to help out ...

Longest Day flying was planned........but called off, as there was fog forecast early morning, in fact the forecast was not very good for t...