© 2016 Scott Dougall. All rights reserved.
Facebook had been reminding me in the last days of this or that flying weekend 3 or 4 years ago, leaving me feeling that it had actually been that long since there had been northerlys at The Dyke. Light, thermic … Continue reading
© 2016 Scott Dougall. All rights reserved.
Its funny how decisions happen, they sort of sneak up on you then kind of explode in a fury of intuition and gut feeling. I was this way that last week I wired rather a lot of money to a … Continue reading
© 2016 Scott Dougall. All rights reserved.
After yesterdays inability to even start the task had my stomach turn with talk that today we were to try to fly over the Grossglockner. I felt that it was not sensible for me to even try and started to visualise a … Continue reading
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The task today was to cross the main chain of the alps and not come back, we had no retrieve and so I collected leaflets about busses and trains on the 2 main corridors back. Ambition is good but however … Continue reading
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Takeoff sometimes is blocked for a while with people not sure enough to launch, this was the case today, in a deeply ironic twist the waiting person, worried that it was nil winds launched after a dusty pranced through the … Continue reading
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The plan had been to compete at the Slovenian Open – itself me responding to Gerolf’ suggestion after seeing I had signed up for the Austrian Open, that conversation resulted in me joining his class and the weather helped us … Continue reading
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Getting ready with all my feelings present and correct, thinking that rigging my glider would be a calming experience ahead of visiting my rock for a bit of quiet reparations. My tip rod snapped, it just felt soft when I … Continue reading
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We could only see far away chances, drove early to Vittorio Veneto for a flight from Monte Pizzoc back to Gemona. Launching from such high places feels like cheating after my 450ft home sites taking off at 1500m or over … Continue reading
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After a night kept awake by the rain waking up with everything feeling damp it was so unlike a flying day so it was rather disbelievingly that I drove off to see the others. We talked a lot about cake, about what we would … Continue reading
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Round and round and round we go, it is the thing we do as glider pilots, where we are most happy going round and going up, finding the clouds and being free. For me coming here is to arrive full circle after … Continue reading
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I had not thought that it was all that flyable but was happy to find all the right arrows pointing in most of the right directions and so knew that Sunday would contain a little flying. Opposite to other recent … Continue reading
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While I am not flying anything like as much as I would like what I am doing is responding to things more creatively that I have for ages. I am happy at my attempt at the T-shirt for the 2016 … Continue reading
© 2016 Scott Dougall. All rights reserved.
After a strange aborted attempt at flying on the saturday due to car crashes, 3 hour drives to launch when I should be 20 minutes, cold windy knarly air I was happy to find me at the Dyke rigging and … Continue reading