Hang Gliding/Paragliding Guides and Trips in United Kingdom
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Trips
Foot launched powered hang glider flight to Folkestone and Beachy Head in south east England
Aeros Phantom Mosquito NRG.
First flight was to Southend.
Second flight, to Hamilton Palace
Hi GuysWell ... what a FAB day it was for flying, great viz if a tad cool :-) ... I took off from Worksop, but about halfway into my XC, I spotted Flymo (he'd took off from Blaggs), wizzing along parallel to the M1. I caught up with him just past Creswell, and managed to take a couple of pix.I managed to try a couple of new things out on this XC:...
The south coast on a fine sunny day
A round trip of Sussex and Kent in South East England
We assembled at John's farm quite early
but we had to wait until nearly 11.00 am before the fog lifted
sufficiently for us to take off. There was a light south westerly
wind which moved us North up the coast easily. We had hoped to be
able to fly into wind or cross wind on the first leg but there was an
air race operating from Great Oakley which had been Notamed for the
whole coastal are up...
The Mid suffolk Squadron on ground manoevres to Lavenham
Somersham, England, United Kingdom
Hang Gliding/Paragliding | 40 miles
Hang Gliding/Paragliding | 40 miles
Another bike trip by the MSS. Good to test the system and also my new logger.
Hour long flight on my Parajet Cyclone Paramotor around Shrivenham.
Boat of Garten to Fraserborough
Kinveachy, Scotland, United Kingdom
Hang Gliding/Paragliding | 112 miles
Hang Gliding/Paragliding | 112 miles
On holiday in Grantown on Spey and it seemed like the weather might give me an opportunity to get started on another leg of the Footlaunch around Britain challenge. Pam (my wife) gave me a lift to her cousins farm near Boat of Garten where I had tried to take off the previous day... On re-constructing my Bailey, I had forgotten to connect the fuel breather tube which meant that I had to...
We invited some friends for a BBQ on Saturday evening. The subject of what we were doing tomorrow came up. Jonathan mentioned he was walking in North Norfolk and suddenly I had a brainwave - maybe he could give me a lift to Kings Lynn and I could use the forecast light westerly to fly the Kings Lynn to Cromer leg of the Footlaunch around Britain challenge. If all went well maybe...
This would be the first time the four of us had flown together since we completed John 'O Groats to Lands End in 2009. We decided that we wanted to fly around Wales. This would also count towards our Footlaunch around Britain challenge too.We congregated at Alex's house near Derby after a quick pit stop at Bailey Aviation earlier in the afternoon. The weather forecast for the next day was for a light Easterly...
Flight around Carsington Water
Whitwell, England, United Kingdom
Hang Gliding/Paragliding | 50 miles
Hang Gliding/Paragliding | 50 miles
Hi GuysA tad on the 'cool' side, 50.5 mile XC paramotor flight from Blaggs Farm (near Creswell) to Carsington Water.Lovely viz' but a bit too cold to take many pix (reluctant to take my BIG gloves off - lol)Fly SafeTurbo
Paragliding @ Barton airport, Manchester.
Salford, England, United Kingdom
Hang Gliding/Paragliding | 2.2 miles
Hang Gliding/Paragliding | 2.2 miles
A paragliding flight at City Airport (Barton), Manchester. The flight has uploaded reversed, for some reason, it was in a clockwise direction. Some photies added from another flight on the same day.
A
large zone of high pressure over Europe was forecast to provide
Southerly winds so the evening before our planned departure we
decided against the other options of flying the South coast or
heading to Wales. We had heard on the pilotsppguk forum that Paul
Haxby was hosting an invitation only fly in at Lord Stones Cafe at
Model ridge on the northern edge of the Yorkshire Moors, directly
down wind of John's farm outside Ipswich.
A
hasty call was made...
St Davids to Severn Bridge
Treleddyd-fawr, Wales, United Kingdom
Hang Gliding/Paragliding | 146 miles
Hang Gliding/Paragliding | 146 miles
John, Brian and I headed off to South Wales with the hope of some flying following a forecast of high pressure. We originally planned to fly towards the West along the South Coast of Wales on the forecast easterlies and then track North up the West Coast of Wales to Snowdon on the later forecast South Westerlies. After a comfortable night at some relatives of mine, the first day was quite windy so we went down to the Gower peninsular...
First decent trip of the year.After comfortable overnight stop at Alex's, set up in a field next to Alex's house. Brian, John and I got away but Alex decided to stay at home this time.Target was to be Swansea, directly down wind and where Alex's son, Andrew, lives. Easy fly, but very thermic, with perfect tailwind down to Weobley where John picked a field to land in. A kindly old gent let...
Paramotor Flight above the FOG
Worksop, England, United Kingdom
Hang Gliding/Paragliding | 13.2 miles
Hang Gliding/Paragliding | 13.2 miles
Hi GuysThis was my first flight of 2013, with a bunch of other Cloud HoppersGreat turn-out, but the UK weather did not behave ;-( ... A lovely bank of FOG arrived & curtailed our original plan of long XC ... but managed to have a quick local flight round Clumber Park above the inversion ...Super, FAB & GroovyTurbo
Paramotoring around Gamstons ATZ
Worksop, England, United Kingdom
Hang Gliding/Paragliding | 32 miles
Hang Gliding/Paragliding | 32 miles
Hi Cloud HoppersHere we go again ... this time just me & Twitty ... with a lovely little 'blat' around Gamstons airspace.Boy oh BOY was it cold ... I think I nearly turned poor old Twitty into a 'jubbly' (remember them) ... on examination, we found his hands had turned purple when we landed.I had hoped to take a peek at the flooding around Dunham toll bridge, but the viz was not...
