The Wedding Season at Shelar

Hi All, We are now in May, the last month of the flying season at Kamshet . Come June, the monsoon arrives and our landing fields turn into verdant waterlogged rice paddy fields.  Luckily for…

Keeping our flying sites clean

 I mentioned in last weekends blog about flying back to the parking and enjoying the sunset. what i did not mention was that the parking was strewn with litter – wafer, chewing gum and chocolate…

An Extremely Buoyant Weekend

  The wind at Shelar was bang on this weekend and conditions were buoyant not just by the ridge but all over and it was possible to sail about for hours on end. After some…

Found the vario, lost the window, still managed to get high

  Ravi flies tandem at his home site while a woman grazes her goats on the hillside                                    …

Crosswind Easter weekend

Crosswind dominated the long Easter weekend.  The north wind component continued from the last weekend with a little more strength and stubbornness – consequently very little flying happened. Some of us managed to catch a…