Articles by Bill Scott

A warm day with a steady NNW breeze in high single figures, but gusting up to mid teens. 6 pilots turned out to fly, but Brians TX decided to stop working (possibly a dodgy SD…

With Tim & David away in England flying full size gliders, we were down to a smaller than usual entry of 7. This quickly whittled down to 5 after Rd 1 as Tommy managed to…

We flew this at our Doagh site with a south easterly wind which was creating a little wind and slope lift. It was as easy to find sink as lift and quite chilly. Som epilots…

2m Electric Competition 10th July 2022 Six flyers turned up for the first competition which I have been able to run this year. It seems incredible that I should be typing this in July but…

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…