Flight Report: 
Left King Tor with 2000'@T/O into blue skies - got more lift over plantations to 3000'@T/O, maintained for a while then lost height till Beardown where there was some bits of lift which didn't develope so glided on to land by B3357 a mile on from North Hessary Tor.

Flight Report: Left King Tor with Dougie at 2pm - similar conditions to last flight from there in April - blue skies, got to inversion at 4500'@S/L over plantations then steadily lost height till Princetown where with Dougie's help found more lift to extend flight to Moorshop landing by B3357.

Flight Report: Left Beardown at 1.15pm with Malcolm - similar conditions to last two flights from King Tor - blue sky and inversion at approx 4500'@S/L which we reached after a long slow climb. Unfortunately Malc had a long-time ambition to land by his house so I lost his company when we reached Tavy. The air was very buoyant over the town and I boated around there for 20 min taking pics. While I was doing this clouds started forming above as the inversion broke up and my next climb to base (first time this year) took me to 6500'@S/L, a record for me. That was over Gunnislake, but the sky was mostly blue beyond as the sea-breeze came in from the south, so then it was just a long glide to just past Kelly Bray near Callington.

Type of XC: out and return ridge run

Flight Report: Took off from Beer Head about !.30pm in buoyant air with some orographic cloud but easy to fly out of. Flew west to Sidmouth and crossed comfortably to the cliffs beyond. Followed Paul Hook around the next point into Ladram Bay but had to scuttle back after half a Km (SX100857 - furthest point west) and top up height over Tortoiseshell rocks before crossing back over Sidmouth, just making it to the low cliffs the other side. Topped up height on Salcombe Hill Cliff, then back across Branscombe to the end of Beer Head (SX228878 - furthest point east) and a landing at T/O about 3pm. Furthest two points apart - 13.0 Km, highest height gain 585ft@T/O.

Type of XC: Open XC

Flight Report: Set off from Sourton Tors about 1.30pm with Martin Foley and Malcolm (Patterson - I think) from North Devon. There was quite a bit of lift around but it came in small packets and wouldn't take us to cloudbase so it took the combined thermal-seeking efforts of all three of us to get across the moor to Postbrdge and avoid a long walk out. There I reached base at 2600@T/O but soon after was thrown a dummy thermal by a circling buzzard near Dartmeet who then shot off leaving me in heavy sink and landing soon after at Yartor Down. Martin went on to Buckfast and Malcolm to Totnes.

Flight Report: Salient points of the flight were:-

A stonking thermal to get away from Sourton, hoisting me to base (at 3000' @ T/O) in 10 mins and was 10 up at times.

Another good climb when getting low in the middle of the moor coming up to Cranmere Pool and Hangingstone Hill.

Making the mistake of cross-winding to the north at the Warren House Inn because there was a blue hole (unusually) over the plantations and the cloud over King Tor looked closer.

After walking to the Moretonhampstead road, the first car I thumbed stopped - a charming couple in a tiny Honda (I think) Micro who somehow managed to shoehorn me and paraglider into their car and take me to Tavistock Bus Station.

Having a couple of debriefing beers in the Fox and Hounds with the usual suspects and also the hanggliding turncoats who'd been out on the moor learning to thermal their floppies and having some success, I gathered.

Type of XC: Open XC

Flight Report: 
Arrived at Cox Tor about oneish to find quite a bit of cloud and a lightish westerly. Alan, Dougie and Matt were just about staying up. I had a short flight but couldn't find anything happening and landed at the bottom. About twoish, with the sky clearing to the south, the sun started coming through and Mat and Dougie were getting quite high eventually vanishing over the back. The wind was also picking up. I moonwalked the Aspen up to launch and found it quite difficult to control which suggested strong thermals coming through. In the air, the thermals were coming through but difficult to stay in - one turn and you were almost over the back - and then, in the strengthening wind, you had to use the speed bar to get back forward. I chickened out of going with first two of these and then the third seemed a steady five up so I went with it. Luckily the thermal was a good'un and I managed to stay in it to cloud-base at about 2500' @ T/O. The clouds around were quite tall, so I moved to the sunny side and found I could gain another few hundred feet thermalling up the side of the cloud. After that, I followed the road (for ease of retrieve) and with a few little top-ups managed to stay over two grand @ T/O till I got to Poundsgate at the edge of the moor. Here the clouds had thinned out and the lift as well (the waterfall effect coming off the moor?) and I aimed for the large quarry just north of Ashburton and a bonfire next to it.

These didn't work so crossing the A38 at the Newton Abbot turn-off I was getting quite low and looking at some pretty uninviting landing options - little hillocks, tight fields, power lines - you name 'em. Luckily I picked up some weak lift that took me another 5 or 6 km over the china clay works to land a mile north of Newton Abbot.