cjs6969: Coming down - landing at Storrington airfield
cjs6969: Going up - taking off from Storrington airfield
cjs6969: Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings...
cjs6969: Soaring over Arundel and the Arun River
cjs6969: Above Coldwaltham and the River Arun, looking south to the South Downs scarp
cjs6969: High over Amberley and the South Downs scarp.
cjs6969: Reaching cloudbase. 5000' above South Stoke and the River Arun.
cjs6969: Coming onto the base-leg at Storrington. Chanctonbury Ring on the skyline.
cjs6969: Sometimes you just need a little boost...
cjs6969: Waiting for the tug plane.
cjs6969: Southdown Gliding Club Piper Cub and Pawnee tugs
cjs6969: Top Gun! One of the Southdown Gliding Club tug pilots in the Pawnee.
cjs6969: Man-powered, Nature-powered, Un-powered.
cjs6969: Black on white.
cjs6969: Soaring
cjs6969: Taking off towards Amberley, Parham House just off the nose to the left.
cjs6969: Parham House, West Sussex
cjs6969: Above Waltham Brooks SSSI, Coldwaltham on the left.
cjs6969: Bury, South Downs scarp and the River Arun, West Sussex.
cjs6969: The A29 up Bury Hill, looking south, Bury village centre-shot.
cjs6969: Above Parham House, approaching the circuit.
cjs6969: Ready to go...
cjs6969: Airborne, westward from Storrington airfield. Coldwaltham and Pulborough Brooks on the right.
cjs6969: Guess what i did today? Two glider flights almost an hour each. 4500 feet and 5200 feet above glorious West Sussex in beautiful weather. With thanks to instructor Geoff behind me from Southdown Gliding Club.
cjs6969: Above Coldwaltham, West Sussex.
cjs6969: Sunburst
cjs6969: This is my thermal, get your own.
cjs6969: A sense of scale...