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The sun always shines at Cwmavon - Even in January

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Santa Pola, Spain, 2007

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Nick Roberts celebrates having achieved 8th position in the 2000 nationals.

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Apr 17, 2007
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The South West Wales Soaring Club (SWWSC) is based in the Swansea area and services an area extending from Carmarthen in the west as far east as Brecon and north to Ammanford. Originally a hang gliding club, the passing of the years have seen great changes in this respect. Sadly, hang gliders are a rarity on most of our sites now, and without a school in the area turning out fresh talent, the trend is not likely to reverse in the foreseeable future.We are a friendly, informal bunch of people, welcoming of visitors who respect our sites, and always looking for new members to join our club. The club has around 60 flying members of which around half are local. The remaining pilots originate mainly from SE Wales and England. Other visiting pilots come to our sites as a result of reciprocal agreements with Welsh Federation clubs or simply turn up to fly one of our open sites. (Having first acquired and read the site rules.)

Due to the somewhat scattered nature our membership, our sites are seldom crowded. On spring and summer weekends with perfect flying conditions, the number of pilots on our hills often numbers less than a dozen! Having said this, our club is thriving and we hold an informal meeting at the Castle Inn, Pontlliw, on the first Thursday of every month. In addition there are regular committee meetings, lectures, parachute re-packs and social functions. A number of our hills are very large and provide for excellent soaring and XC flights. For the last few years we have done well in the Airwave challenge, and we have pilots who fly in other competitions as well as a sprinkling of Nationals pilots. During summer months, resident school www.flywestwales.co.uk run by Professional Pilot and Chief Flying Instructor Rob Mansley will be seen frequenting our sites offering help and advice as well as from many club coaches or instructors who number amongst our members.

If you are not currently a member of our club but would like the opportunity to fly our sites, please get in touch via one of the methods provided by this web site so that we might provide all the help and information you need.

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	Ways to access website \| 07 Mar 10
21:07:43 by Steve Watkins \| Views: 70 \| Comments: 2 With the increase in mobile phones, pda's, web browsers etc I thought it would be useful to post the following information. Main address - http://www.swwsc.co.uk If you access this on a mobile phone, then if you set it to view as "mobile view", it will display the site in a quick and easy way to read on the hill. Here are some screen shots: MOBILE VIEW ON IN SETTINGS ...
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	Possible airspace restriction in the Swansea Bay to Cardiff area \| 02 Mar 10
21:45:28 by SteveJ \| Views: 165 \| Comments: 4 As a direct result of the fatal aircraft accident of 11 Feb 09 over Kenfig Dunes (collision between 2 RAF Grob Tutor trainers) there is currently some restriction as to the procedure for entering an area of airspace extending from the Cardiff Airport ATZ northward to (and slighty beyond) Swansea and upwards to 10,000'. This covers an area of approx two miles inland of the coast ie affecting our Mynydd Dinas and Cwmafan sites. I first saw the information posted on a board at Swansea Airport yeste...
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