Combe Gibbet - 6th April 2007

A great day - 6 flights, two top landings, four slope landings and plenty of height gain. Longest flight - 1 1/2 hrs. Now completely knackered and slightly sunburned but managed 4 hrs of flying overall - well worth the drive.

I was on site for 9.30 and in the air by 10am. For a while things weren't too busy but gradually more people arrived. Four of us had the ridge to ourselves for a while which was great - so much more room than Dunstable.


Things got a little bit bumpy for a short while, but pretty mild really. Most of the time it was smooth soaring conditions - the only downside was the number of pilots in the air and their lack of appreciation of air law (pilots with the ridge on their right have right of way!). I managed to 360 back behind the hill for a short while and pondered where I might go if I gained enough height but was never really an option. A few other pilots did make it away from the ridge (Andover was the furthest I heard of). It was also possible to push out over the fields in front of the ridge (the best lift was often here) so it made a change to be flying away from the hill for once.