Articles by Bill Scott

First event of 2022, forecast wasn’t great and our CD was otherwise engaged, but we still 10 people turn up. With the cold and blustery conditions, 2 decided not to fly, their models being unflown…

A good day for an event, but a little headwind would have made life a bit easier with the bungees and some sun would have generated a few thermals. Quite a few of us struggled…

A good turnout of 7 pilots for this event. Forecast was good and all the lift seemed to be well out to the northern end of the field, so those able to range out further…

Due to various circumstances we were very limited in numbers for this event, but had (JUST!), the minimum number our club rules allow. With a very iffy forecast and heavy wind/rain forecast later in the…

Apologies for the delay in posting this up. This event took place on a warm sunny day, but thermals were few & far between. Finding them was difficult, staying with them was harder! In most…

The forecast in the lead up to this was very poor and I don’t think any of us were entirely convinced we’d get to fly. On the day, it was very overcast and a bit…

For the first time in quite a while we were able to use the main field as the football goalposts had been taken down. This made seting up the 2 winches easier and gave us…

The forecast through the weekend had varied from awful, (high winds & rain) to pretty good, (light wind & sun). Even on Sat evening the forecast wind was borderline. Our CD decided to go ahead…

Forecast was very much borderline but still 7 pilots turned out to fly. With some quite severe gusts coming through you had to judge the best point at which to launch. CD Paul Freeman called…

For various reasons we were well down on numbers for this event and the forecast didn’t look overly promising. Still 4 people turned out to fly. The sky was all over the place, with blue…