I came, I soar, I went.

The gliding season in the UK seems to be just about getting underway after a long, dull winter where not much could happen - even at our 7-day-a-week, 365-day-a-year club, most pilots have struggled to get flights in due to the conditions. My plan for the year is to go for the Silver badge ( got my height gain a few weeks ago ) and get some cross country kilometres under my belt. With the latter in mind, I helped to organise our club's participation in the Yorkshire Inter-Club League held at Burn Gliding Club, where a fellow pilot and I took our club's Astir CS-77 to see what we could achieve. Thursday The first thing we did was to go down to Burn on the Thursday for some site checks; we know how to fly, but the vast majority (ie, all bar about 3) of my flying has been from the same airfield where the local surroundings are now etched into my brain - making local navigation and planned arrivals into circuits quite routine. Burn has a long, thin tarmac runway which i