Finally the wind blew and lift was good at the PSSA event on the Lleyn Peninsula over the wekend of the 13th and 14th August 2016. The June event was marred by zero lift, so to be welcome with a Westerly 10 to 20mph smooth sea breeze overlooking Hell’s Mouth was a bonus. We arrived

A maiden flight is always apprehensive particularly in a strong wind. Last Sunday, however, we were blessed with a strong enough wind at the Mermaid to be confident, but not too strong so as to fear the worst. The A4 Skyhawk was finished and it was time to test it.  It is part of the

As I am staying at the Caravan in Anglesey for the week, a trip to the Orme is an hour away, and reasonably accessible as long as the forecast makes it worthwhile. XC Weather said it was only going to be 8 to 10mph but WSW to SW for the day. That direction makes it

I was flying up at the Roaches with a few of the usual crowd quite happily over the bank holiday weekend in May, when suddenly a warden from the Wild Life Trust appeared and asked us to stop flying because we were not partaking in a permitted activity. He asked us if we would stop

Never having visited the famous Bwlch South Wales slopes, I was quite eager to see what the wild Welsh hills had to offer your keen slope soarer with some scale models. As it is a 4 hour drive from the North, I took Friday off to travel down, and booked into a B&B near Merthyr

Unusually for April, the Orme hosted the first PSSA Meeting by greeting us with some Northerly winds, which meant that we could not fly from the Tank tracks on Day One. The weather, however, although cold, was crisp, dry, and sunny, more or less all day. It is always difficult to recognise old friends when

You may not get RCM&E Magazine like I do, and if not you may not realise that the Scale Fly In, usually organised by one of our members Ant Jervis, is always held in the middle weekend of August each year. It is an event that has been running regularly for a number of years,