Yesterday (20th August 2015) was the sort of day where you wonder whether to fly because the forecast is changeable. I am staying at our caravan in Anglesey where there are some reasonable slopes round Holyhead mountain, and Church Bay, but nothing to compare to the Orme, which is a 1 hour drive. Often the

Do you recognise this picture? – it is taken by the side of the Mermaid Pool, which I began to investigate, when I was writing a build blog on the RCM&E Site about my latest model, the Top Model Ideal – here. I didn’t realise that there were so many rumours attached to the pool. If

Today, once again I ventured to the North West Slope of Holyhead Mountain. The lift is smooth cliff like sea sourced air, and any plane in any strength of air, almost would rise and rise. It is easily as good as the Orme. Below you are the famous Gogarth climbing cliffs. There is heather and

If you want to look at the remainder of the photographs taken on the day click the button PSS Photos For the second time this year, Keith and I attended the PSS Fly in at the Orme over the weekend of 31st May and 1st June. This meeting had attracted a lot of publicity in that

A few weeks ago I told you about a new site I had found just south of South Stack Lighthouse on Holyhead Mountain, which faces the direction of Trearddur Bay. You can read my news story here. Over the last two weeks the wind in Anglesey has been North West or West North West, so further

The lads from the Lleyn Flying Club told me they have flown off the South West slope of Holyhead mountain near the bird observatory but I have not flown there until very recently. The wind was in a WNW direction initially, so I parked at the top of the South Stack lighthouse steps and walked

Keith and I attended the first day of the PSSA weekend meeting at the might Orme in Llandudno. A large collection of entnthusiastic knowledgeable individuals attended, including Andy Ellison and crew with their collection of Jarts and mouldies. Indeed they flew more than the PSS boys. The wind at the edge of the South West

Today was a PSSA event organised by Phil Cooke and Cocker, and hosted by Lleyn MAC on the Lleyn Peninsula. The day was warm and wind square on their West Slope blowing about 18mph. I had never attended a PSSA event but had heard good things about them. People had turned up from as far afield