Pennine Soaring Club welcomed two guest speakers for an evening of talks on competition flying.

🪂 Elliott Brown shares his competition flying journey.
🪁 Doug Neil explains how he made the British Hang Gliding Team.

Recorded at the Pennine Soaring Club talk on Monday 9th November.

Recorded at the Pennine Soaring Club talk evening on Monday 12th October at the Sea View Inn, Chorley, this is a double bill of cross-country flying stories.

🪂 Richard Butterworth: 300km in the UK
Richard talks through his 300km UK personal best. He covers the planning, the conditions and the decisions that made a flight of that distance possible.

🏆 Jacob Butterworth: Junior Paragliding World Championships
Jacob describes flying for the British team at the Junior Paragliding World Championships, where the team won silver. He talks about what competition flying is like and how the team approached the event.

Many members of a certain age will remember Tony from the 1990’s when he was an active member of the Pennine Soaring Club, serving on the committee and publishing the newsletter for many years. Following a serious mountain biking crash which paralysed him from the neck down, he rebuilt a very different life – living independently, driving a highly adapted car and riding a recumbent 3-wheeler bike around his home town of Tyldesley.

Sadly, following a succession of other illnesses, he finally passed away on Monday 18th May after battling determinedly for over 25 years. Please watch this space for news of any funeral arrangements.

If you have any personal memories of him that you would like to share, please pass them on to me at safety@penninesoaringclub.org.uk

Hi all, Winter Hill top driveable access is open again.  Please see note below from John at Arqiva.

Thanks

Andy

Good morning,

I’m pleased to confirm that the three years of mast works at Winter Hill have now been completed, and access restrictions can be relaxed.

Access arrangements are now as follows:

• The bottom barrier will remain locked as usual.
• The two newer gates surrounding the TV mast site will remain open under normal conditions and will only be closed/locked when airworks are taking place.

Please note that the padlock code for the bottom barrier will remain the same in the short term. This will be updated soon, and a further notification will be issued in advance of any change.

I’d like to thank everyone for your patience, cooperation, and support during this particularly busy period—it has been very much appreciated.

Kind regards,

John Doran

Arqiva