Welcome to the Malvern Hang Gliding Club
The Malvern hang-gliding club exists to promote hang-gliding and paragliding for club
pilots in the Malvern area.
Latest news
Weather stations: The Club's own weather station, situated at the Wyche Cutting is now back on line! To link to it in a new browser page click "Wyche"
The link to Bromsberrow remains, of course and for that link click here. Bromsberrow weather station is 6 miles SSW of Pinnacle Hill, and is at an elevation of 200ft. See also the "Weather" section in the panel on the left.
New Google events calendar Jim Clewitt has devised this magnificent device to keep you all up to date with what's going on. Click here to open the calendar in a new window.
Flying Notices
Your urgent attention required
The previous paraglider landing field below Kettle-Sings East is not currently available, the land-owner having withdrawn permission. A new landing field has been secured, a little further from takeoff. Click here to view the site guide, with details of new field and emergency field.
Please pass the word around that there is now a new authorised landing field and that nobody should land in the old one.
Important site update notice:
Leckhampton
There is no longer a bottom landing field available.
Pilots should assume there is no bottom landing and only fly if they are sure they can stay up/get away or are competent at slope landing in the bowl (tricky).
Also the only suitable parking place is the Quarry car park: Parking at Hartley's farm is no longer permitted.
Updated details are on the Leckhampton page.
Important notice:
Horses can be ridden on many of the footpaths over the Worcestsershire Beacon (a members-only site) and Kettle Sings as some of them are also bridle-ways.
This potential hazard is brought to the attention of all pilots as they are easily spooked, as happened recently.
All pilots must be extra vigilant when flying there as the paths are not all visible when on the ground.
Notice about the "Bath Gap": Due to increasing air traffic in the Bristol area, there has been a change to restricted airspace in the area to the east of Bristol, near Bath. Rather than trying to explain it here, please refer to the excellent presentation on the Avon HG & PG site. If you want to fly the gap, the procedure is to phone Bristol ATIS on 01275-473666 and find out if the gap is open. (Opening the gap gives 1000ft of extra flying height in the corridor)
If it is not open, ring club reps who are on this .pdf file on the Avon website. The extra airspace can be opened by a nominated Avon member ringing up.
How to fly our sites
Want to join the club?
You don't have to be a club member in order to fly most of the sites managed by the Malvern Club.
However there are restrictions on the main Malvern hill sites: You may need a 'sticker for life' or to become a full member.
Details and the application forms are on our Sites page.
Alternatively come along to the Club night at The Pheasant, Welland, details below.
Club Meetings
Social meetings are held at 8 pm on the second Wednesday of each month at The Pheasant pub in Welland
(Note: no longer at the Plume of Feathers),
3 miles to the South-East of Malvern.
For a map click here.
Previous activities have included parachute repacking, video nights, slide shows, quizzes and talks by luminaries such as
"WeatherJack" Harrison, Jes Flynn, Darren Arkwright and Larry Tudor.
The Pheasant
Drakes St,
Welland,
Worcs WR13 6LP
Flying Diary
More about the Blog: Google has completely taken over now, and manages both "old" and "new" blogsites. You can read the "old" blog below, and the "new" blog by clicking on the link: http://malvern-hg.blogspot.com. If you just want to look at the "new" blog, then click the link. If you want to post one, log on to "Google Blogger" using the e-mail address "info@malvern-hang.org.uk" as your username. You will also need the password to put up a new posting. For those of you with a musical inclination, you can think of a set of variations that were written near our main flying site, or you can e-mail me (webmaster) and ask me what it is. Having done this, you then get a choice of adding your blog to the new list (13 or so entries), or to the old one (185 or so entries). On the face of it, the "old" blog has the merit of a) being actually on our website and visible in this window, and b) having a greater width of page than the new one, where Google seem to want you to keep everything within quite narrow boundaries. However, when you come to make a blog to the "old" site, it still comes in "narrow", so that advantage evaporates.
The previous instructions for the "old" blogger don't work now, so I've hidden them. You can have a go at both systems and see which you prefer. You can put pictures up on the "old" blogger, but, so far, I've found it rather a hit & miss procedure. As an experiment, I re-loaded the March 23rd blog on the old system. Hopefully, we will soon reach a consensus about which to use, and discontinue the other one. Mail me if you have views - JK
Thursday, April 05, 2007
5 April 2007 Spent a long afternoon sunbathing with Dennis at Builth whilst watching smoke from the fires over the back (possibly burning bracken?) clearly defining the inversion layer and the almost total lack of wind. Eventually some pilots from South Wales made the sacrifice and left which of course triggered things off and the wind picked up all be it from the NW. The locals then joined us and conditions were pleasant enough for an hour or so when we had to leave them too it. Chris H.
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Friday, 23 March 2007 Wednesday at the Lawley
 It looked a cracking start to the day but as we (John Kingsley, Bryan Hindle and David Jackson-Hobbs) arrived on the Lawley take off, the clouds had already started to disappear and we were left in an enormous blue hole. Shortly after we were joined by Nigel and Caroline & Tim Crow, quite the club outing. We all scratched and landed and scratched some more up to the highest point where David made it to approx 1000ft ATO in a nice thermal with Tim & Bryan, but after around 35mins touched back down on top.
 We`d had enough by then and flew back down the ridge (John on Shanks' pony) to land near the cars and pack up. So endeth the day ! Sorry, no big (or small) XC`s to report.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
   Malvern - Kettle Sings - Sunday 18th Feb (Misty - Low cloud - E 0 - 12 mph) Richard Pearce Great to see a few familiar faces (Ian, Brian, Bryan, George, John, etc). Flying not brilliant but had a few flights (one 39 mins). Bit crowded at times and lift did disappear at times. Landing field a bit boggy. Otherwise great to fly the Kettle again (only twice in a year). R Apologies for the poor old version Compegps pictures but they were a lot better than the ones I took with the camera of the fog!
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Castlemorton - 18/02/2007 - E 8 - 15 mph Back i n the air at last after a year off for ankle surgury.... only 5 min float about just over ridge height before I bombed out into the sodden common below but better than a days gardening! Keith
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Sunday 14th January afternoon Scaresfield beacon 14-20mph wsw on top, 6-8mph down below Apptly named. Ground handling was what we intended to do
We were on the bottom/slope landing area in front of TO about 150ft down. I was just going to fly down to a clear area where Jez had moved to about 20ft beneath my rigging area (as I had got the lines caught on a small bush after a frontal collapse). So off I went, and up I went, and up I went and back I went and then back I went very fast and down I went into the field behind the road and carried out an excellent landing. But the bit in between was not smooth and I used pretty much full brake, no brake and all sorts in between to reinflate the wing in between trying to stay pointing into wind. Still it was a nice afternoon out in the country and I did fly, albeit with very little actual definitive control. Dave
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