Pictures of the recent solo’s achieved by the final three ESGC 2015 Cadets including Toby Brown on his 14th birthday – just about old enough to fly, but they can’t buy us a round down the pub…
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Another junior gliding solo!
Well done Seb for soloing at 15 years of age – he’s the one on the left đ It just goes to show what can be achieved by our ambitious junior pilots!
BGA newsletter July 15
The BGA monthly newsletter for July 2015 is now available here.
Great day for flying at ESGC
Saturday 30th of May was a great day for flying. We launched 72 gliders and many pilots took on cross country tasks including a successful 500 km flight. People started to rig their gliders early in the morning and we had the first launch at around 9 am. All day long the airfield was busy […]
Fifty years first solo flight
Having a grand total of 1 hour and 50 minutes flying time in his log book, on the 23rd of May 1965, Paul Robinson made his first solo flight in a Kirby Cadet Mk.III . To celebrate the 50th anniversary of this milestone Paul took the Club Chairman, Bob Godden, for an aerobatic flight on […]
BGA May Newsletter
The Monthly BGA newsletter (May 15) has been published. A PDF version is available here.
Inter Club League 2015 – Tibenham
Competition Report ESGC took Saturday with flying colours as each of it’s pilots won their class. The luck was on our side as George Green’s logger failed, but Rob Lockett was flying the task, too. He was the fastest of the pundits and got the 3 points for ESGC. Vernon Bettle managed to top the Intermediate […]
Inter Club League first competition day
The 2015 Inter Club League got on the way at Tibenham today. The weather required to get on task quickly as in the afternoon it will deteriorate and eventually forecast to rain, so any pilot not completing the task by 16:00 will most likely land-out. Pilots from Norfolk Gliding Clug (NGC), which is hosting the first event this year, […]
Just like buses…
…you wait ages for one to materialise then a whole batch turn up together! Instructor John Bone inflicted Robert Walker to some final launch failure exercises today before sending him off to enjoy some solo soaring.  Super stuff Rob!
Yet another gliding solo
Well done Mark Wilshaw who flew his first solo yesterday after completing his final training with Den.
Another gliding solo
Congratulations to Pablo Martinez who was sent solo by Richard Kimberley this afternoon.
