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Written by Tim Morris
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Saturday, 04 May 2013 12:37 |
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I recently had the opportunity for some soaring in America during two trips there for work. I visited the friendly folks at Coastal Soaring in Pensacola, Florida (www.coastalsoaring.org) and Carolina Soaring in Spartanburg, South Carolina. (www.carolinasoaring.org).
Coastal Soaring is located about a mile from the Gulf of Mexico on the North West side of Pensacola, Florida. Pensacola is in the far west of the Panhandle of Florida, about as far from Disney World as you can get and still be in the same state. It’s the only gliding club for quite a ways, so they have members from Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. They even have one member who lives in New Orleans, Louisiana and drives over 200 miles to fly. The Ridgewell crowd thinks they have it rough driving to Wattisham in the winter! Due to the presence of Naval Air Station Pensacola the city prides itself as the “Cradle of Naval Aviation” and home of the Blue Angels. I went through flight school there as a brand new Second Lieutenant, so I was looking forward to starting my American gliding career in familiar airspace.
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Written by Andy Smith
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Sunday, 12 February 2012 22:42 |
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 The recent cold weather put a dent in our flying plans after the doors to our glider hangar froze shut, but we still got airborne for some amazing views of the countryside in the motor glider!
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Written by Andy Smith
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Monday, 27 June 2011 08:48 |
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 The days may now be getting shorter, but the gliding keeps getting better! Congratulations go out to Gwyn for his 500km flight from Wattisham last week. Not content with that, he and Lee Davisdon took a tow to 3000ft on Saturday to play around in some wave lift that had formed over the airfield, reaching a height of 6500ft.
Conditions were tricky on Sunday but that didn't stop Alison Eke and Carl Thomas re-soloing - congratulations! |
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Written by Andy Smith
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Sunday, 05 June 2011 23:29 |
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The club website has taken another step to being fully operational again with the return of online logsheet viewing. It's back, and it's even better than before! After logging-in, click on the "View My Profile" link in the Members Menu, then select the "Flight Log" tab. Please report any problems to
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Written by Andy Smith
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011 19:20 |
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Whilst we were busy having lots of fun gliding over the sunny Easter weekend (including three re-solos and some cross-country flying), the technology powering the club's website was imploding. With only a partial backup and Google cache to work with, reconstruction has not been easy. Most of the public content is now back on-line, as is the event system for organising flying activities. Other areas will return bit-by-bit over the coming days.
Now for the important bit: all user accounts were trashed along with the rest of the site database, so all members will need to re-register in order to log in to the site. This will be a completely fresh account so you can either pick the same username/email address as before or use a different one. If there's any problems, please drop a note to
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