As a special treat, we’ve had one more club night before the break until next winter. Pete Logan, Dales Club Chief Coach kindly agreed to come and talk to us about getting to the next level and flying that dream 100km.
View Pete's presentation from the night.
Monday 11th November Club Night Meeting – SeaView Inn – 7:30pm
This was yet another excellent evening with Richard Meek presenting a well put together collection of slides and videos covering his flying exploits over the 2024 season.
Richard covered a very detailed preparation process which involved checking weather forecasts, national forecasts, finding the best site for the day (where-ever that was in the whole UK) and the potential routes and goal setting. Everyone was impressed by the level of panning Richard puts into this, even down to using Google Earth for the picking of potential landing fields close to his chosen goal. Indeed Richard even looks for railway stations nearby and the time tables for trains taking him back to this TO location. The only thing Richard, didn’t seem to do was pre-book his train ticket prior to the day!
Richard also showed some excellent videos of his epic flights and competition tasks, but also showed his human side of when things didn’t quite go to plan, such as the epic recovery of his wing when caught up in a significantly large tree!
I think all members present would agree this was an excellent informative and entertaining evening. Richard has presented at Club nights previously, and hopefully will present at future meetings to come. Certainly not one to miss!
Pennine Soaring Club first Club Night of the season. Weather forecasting to fly. Various speakers to help to simplify good to fly, safe to fly and choosing the correct site.
Thanks to Brian Stewart, Andy Archer, Simon Baillie and Neil Charles for presenting.
Links to sites mentioned:
RASP - https://rasp.stratus.org.uk/
LazyRASP - https://lazyrasp.com/
XCWeather - https://www.xcweather.co.uk/
Weather School - https://weatherschool.co.uk/
Weather School YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/WeatherSchool
WeatherWebdotNet - https://premium.weatherweb.net/
Met Office Aviation Briefing Service - https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/services/transport/aviation/regulated/national-aviation/uk-services/pre-flight-briefing-services/abs/index
Mountain Weather Information Service - https://www.mwis.org.uk/
Wind At Altitude - Hilltop Analytics - https://apps.hilltop-analytics.com/weather/
The awards for the 2023 season were awarded at the well attended AGM. The winners are as follows:
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(not present)
33km flight from Parlick on 9th July 2023
53.9km flight from Parlick on 9th July 2023
124km flight from Parlick on 16th June 2023
29.84km FAI triangle on the 7th April 2023
1st place in Buttermere Bash Lakeland Charity Open B comp. and 1st place in LCC B comp.
British sports, St-Jean-Montclar: 1st in Reynolds, 4th overall
https://airtribune.com/bst2023/results/task6176/comp/overall-winner
British champs: 1st in Reynolds, 3rd in Sports,16th Brit, 52th overall.
Most chuffed about been first sports on one of the task's and been in sight of the leaders.
https://airtribune.com/bpc2023/results/task6295/comp/overall
World Civl rank 1318, UK Civl rank 48
Retrieve from Tebay for Jim and John
Creating the Wind at Altitude app
For their assistance involving an incident at Parlick
For best tent landing!
For services as chairman
For 27 years dedicated service to the club committee
