Itford Hill Sat 1st July 2023

Today Scott and I met up at Itford Hill to try out the westerly that was being forecast.
In fact it was more like a WNW but that's fine at Itford.
On the way up the hill I noticed a lot of bright pink notices stating 'Bike Route' so I expected there to be some sort of cycling function going on and indeed there were hundreds of bikes coming along the South Downs Way on the 'Century' challenge - either 100k or 100 miles along the South Downs.

The bikes severely restricted our ability to fly and especially to land safely, so we kept our models to the North West face of the hill to avoid proximity to the bikes.
The weather was at times not enough to lift our light models and at other times too blustery to keep control, so although we both had quite a few flights, we felt a little hampered by the weather and the bikes. 
Scott flew his Ahi and I flew my Alula.

After 2.5 hours we retired to the cars, also beaten by the then wet and windy weather....

Rob

21/6/23 Baffling Beeding

 Four members made the trip to Beeding bowl on Wednesday morning,Myself and Dave King arriving around 9am to be greeted by a fair breeze.

Dave armed with his Spirit,Wildthing and an unknown model he tried his Wildthing first despite a reasonable breeze it would not fly so launched his Spirit model which flew quite well despite the strange conditions the unknown model would not fly at all.

Meanwhile I tried my Lidl model which was one of four models I had brought along,the others being my Wildhing,Easy Trainer and Starlet.

The Lidl just would not go,so i tried the Easy Trainer which flew ok despite the strange conditions.

Next to arrive was Russell Hawke with an array of models the first two models tried were a Summer Breeze which fly well as did his Jubilee 1977 vintage.

Next to join us was Martin Jones armed with his Aggressor and Skyclimber a powered glider which flew well despite the strange conditions. Martin tried his Aggressor with no success.

Russell returned to his car to bring out two more models a Quicksilver and Hacker Tomahawk flying wing.

As conditions were improving I decided to try try my Starlet which was flying ok till the lift just went and it ended up at the bottom likewise Russell had the same problem with one of his models and had a long walk to collect his model. I must say Russell had some great looking models and it was great to meet him for the first time.

After I left Russel tried two more models.

A good morning despite conditions and some good stick time

Thanks for a great morning guys.