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 Wednesday, March 10 2010 @ 04:01 AM UTC
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Duo and Ridge

Edensoaring's activity at Skelling Farm has finsihed for 2009, and will resume there sat 1st May 2010 when we be operating 7 days per week right through to the end of October. As well as providing a base for our own member pilots we shall be hosting visitng pilots from other clubs and also providing trial instructional flights in the club 2-seater gliders, and training to solo standard and beyond. Please contact us via email on office@edensoaring.co.uk if you wish to enquire about booking as a visiting pilot, or wish to know more about flying with us in a 2-seater.

Commencing Saturday 28th Nov 2009 and until late April 2010 we shall be operating as a soaring club from LLeweni Parc airfield, Denbighshire, North Wales.

This airfield has all-weather surfaces and lies just to the west of the famous Clwyd Hills which face west, and to the east of the Snowdonia National Park which is a great lee wave generator.

Pilots will be welcome to base gliders at Lleweni Parc for the winter and spring period so that we can share some great soaring and get better value out of our gliders! See news item below for further details of such winter membership and also charges, site instructions etc.

Further details and expressions of interest via email on office@edensoaring.co.uk ( manned from sunday 15th Nov. so patience please if we can't reply until then)

You may try phoning the club phone 0784 997 9575 after 15th Nov.

Wishing you some fun flying at Lleweni, and a welcome to our old friends when we return to Skelling Farm, Cumbria, next year.

*Edensoaring Ltd, a company limited by guarantee and trading as "Edensoaring". We are a non-profit making members club.


Article on Eden Soaring

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Thursday, January 07 2010 @ 05:37 PM UTC
Contributed by: rjohn
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General NewsFollow the link and go to page 20 of the London Gliding Club's Nov 09 Newsletter for an article by Robert John on his visit. His description of the width of the gap in the wall is not quite right. The gap is 50m wide, or twice the width of the largest glider we expect to fly at Skelling ( a 25m wide glider). If you can steer a glider you should have no difficulty. http://www.londonglidingclub.co.uk/files/newsletters/November%202009.pdf
 
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Winter and spring soaring at Lleweni Parc, Denbighshire, North Wales starts sat 28th Nov 2009

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Saturday, November 07 2009 @ 04:54 AM UTC
Contributed by: Pete
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General NewsAnother amazing site with great soaring potential, on the ridge and into the great North Wales wave. We shall be hosting the pilots wishing to visit or base their gliders at Lleweni through this period. We shall be able to take launches by winch using the Skylaunch every weekend and also during the week by arrangement. Please disuss with us your ideas for group expeditions.

I have put some photos of the site on the media album, accessible without logging on.

I shall be posting links to site briefing notes and how to get there in the next 2 weeks, and can email these to people who express interest in joining us at Lleweni ( pronounced "Kle ( as in the)- Wen- i " !). It is quite close to Denbigh, so quite easy to find. The airfield shows up on Google Earth. Try and find it, I shall sort out co-ordinates later.

Some basic rules we have to abide by are 1. stay off the grass, stay on the hard areas only 2. Land long and at the end of the runway so others can get down behind you 3.Keep the place tidy and free from rubbish.

This means not really suitable for skidded gliders.

We would suggest that the minimum requirement for pilots is silver C and currency on winch. Of course no problem if the pilot is P2 with an experienced pilot or instructor.

Charges:- £15 launch fee, but no charge for trailer parking or use of the airfield facilities at Lleweni, payable to Lleweni Parc Ltd. Separate fees for hangarage, caravan parking, camping to be negotiated with the airfield owner.
Membership charges : Winter membership £40 (28th Nov to 23rd April inclusive) , daily reciprocal membership £6 . Or full flying membership of Edensoaring (£200*) which would cover end of 2009, and to April 2010 at Lleweni, and May to Oct at Skelling Farm (near Penrith) in Cumbria.
*Edensoaring flull flying membership will be £220 if paid after Jan 2010.
Discounts for people 18 and under, or in full time education, or spouse of full flying members.

Our K13 is hangared and available to members of Edensoaring ( day, winter, or full flying) . Current instructors, and suitably qualified pilots ( ask our CFI or deputy, contact details below) who are current on the winch may use it. Charge 35 pence per min.

More news later. If you are a registered user of this website you will be kept updated automatically.

Contact by email on office@edensoaring.co.uk
Mobile 0784 997 9575



 
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Edensoaring dates of opening

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Friday, October 23 2009 @ 09:16 AM UTC
Contributed by: Pete
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General NewsOur Skelling Farm operations are due to close on the last weekend of October.
There is a duty instructor and 2-seater available on Sat 31st October. On Sunday 1st November we shall be closing down and putting things away, so unless the weather is good, when launches can be offered early in the day to local or visiting solo pilots, we are closing down that day.

We are re-opening at Skelling on sat 1st May, with a full-time 7 days per week operation. In the meantime the club 2-seater will be based at an all-weather site in Denbighshire ( LLweni Parc) where we plan to offer weekeend flying and later, in March and April 2010, some expeditions and training courses ( suitable for pre-solo and also post-solo pilots) through the week.

If you have interest in joining or organising such expeditions or courses, either in a club group or individually please contact us via office@edensoaring.co.uk .

If you are a registered user of the website we shall be keeping you posted with updates on our plans. if not registered, then please do so, but do also send an email with some information about yourself/ your flying experience please.

 
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New 1;500 000 CAA map of Northern England

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Wednesday, June 17 2009 @ 08:15 AM UTC
Contributed by: Pete
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General NewsNew map out May 2009. Please do fly with an up to date map. Pete
 
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Penrith Week News

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Monday, May 11 2009 @ 07:46 PM UTC
Contributed by: Pete
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General NewsSat 2nd May to Sun 10th May

A great soaring week, with 8 out of the 9 days soaring. Cracking thermals , great wave ( Mike Armstrong to 19,500 right over the site, even the K13 was taking pupils to 10,000). We finished off by some racing between the ends of the ridge in westerlies, very challenging in terms of optimising the speed by choosing the height band. A complicated ridge. We have also been training some local pilots who have previously been solo, should not be long now before we have some local home-grown soaring pilots.

A good start to our flying in 2009. Come and visit, be part of our growth.
 
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