Just a few photos of our recent trip to Camphill in the beautiful Peak District.
Camphill in April
Recent Exped to Portmoak
As you may (or not) know some of us spent a week at Portmoak back in early October and it’s fair to say we all had a great time flying in ridge, thermal and weak wave. I personally logged over 10 hours of flying during our stay.
Portmoak (SGU) kindly offered us the use their Perkoz for one afternoon and during this time I had flights with Andrew, Bob and John. We were all surprised how nice it is to fly and especially how quite it is. The Perkoz is a great improvement over the Puchacz, 78kts on the winch and a VNE of about 145kts!
Hopefully the attached photos will encourage others to join us on these expeditions in future………….. btw the next one is probably at Camphill around Easter 2023 and another to Milfield is already booked for next October but more on this later 🙂 If you fancy coming along just let me know and we will see if we can arrange to take a Puchacz with us.
Sunday 18th July
Another hot day but conditions were far better than those on Saturday so here are a few photos of a 2hr 45min flight with Pete in 383.
Sunday 1st December
With a NE wind blowing at around 10kts or so it was a good opportunity to see how well the on loan RAFGSA Skylaunch fitted with Dyneema performed.
Jim C. in EUF and yours truly in JPC, both flying solo, each managed a creditable (and surprising) 2,200ft 🙂
Some launches had to be cut short, due to the lower than launch height cloudbase, but if you were lucky with the timing then great views were on offer.
