Hi All, Well – the season is in full swing. Worries about snowy and muddy airfields are behind us (hopefully), and lots of soaring, training, flying new gliders, and eating and drinking together is going on. Come and join us!…
weather for the weekend
Weather for the next few days looks quite nice, including Saturday and Sunday. Saturday looks the best day, with more cumulus, Saturday might have shallow cus, but still looks like quite a nice day, especially in the afternoon. Both good…
Forecast for the week
Wednesday looks like a nice ridge between two sets of fronts, so I reckon it’ll be nice and thermic earlier on, perhaps with increasing cloud as the day wears on. Saturday looks pretty unstable and showery, as does Sunday, but…
Sun, Soaring and Sausages
Barbecues, Land-outs, good fun flying and friends sharing a beer marked this bank holiday weekend at the Staffordshire Gliding club. Really nice to see lots of activity and folk enjoying themselves. Come along and enjoy the fun! Mike Mike
Forecast for the week
Don’t write Wednesday off! There is, in essence a cold front going through in the morning, so it’s likely that you will wake up to rain and not bother going down the club. However, cold fronts are good news for…
Weather for the week ahead
Glorious, sunny weather for getting back into the swing of flying for the week ahead, but there are some caveats (as usual in this country). Wednesday sees high pressure pushing in from the East, which is unusual, bringing strongish Southerly…
Flying this summer at SGC
Despite the obvious terrible weather, flying and training has continued throughout winter at the Staffordshire Gliding Club and there has been much achieved. Some have enjoyed soaring flights where there is a ridge or some wave to sustain flight, but…
Wave after the drizzle
Great day at the club today. Starting off grey and drizzling, the sky opened up to reveal the sun, thermals and wave. As the tug is back online, several took advantage of the opportunity to take a high tow to…
Soaring in 2017!
A nice day on Wednesday with a soft but useable airfield and some thermals! Our duty instructor Ian Carrick managed to climb to well above the winch launch, scoring the longest flight of the day. The season has started!
Today Weds 14th at SGC
A good turnout on a misty December day marred initially with poor viz and fogged canopy’s, we enjoyed several aerotows thanks to Paul and some good winch launches, later in the day we found some weak wave to extend…