Sunday 17th February at 10am or 2pm Lady Manners School, Bakewell The 2019 DSC repack event – DO NOT DELAY AS THIS GETS BOOKED UP! Come along and repack your reserve with BHPA qualified packers on hand for advice. You’ll need to bring along a copy of the manuals for both your reserve and harness. Downloads of...
At the meeting on Sunday evening, warm welcomes were extended to those joining for the first time: Lee Pearce (Chairman), Wayne Smith (Safety), Seth Barber (Joint Webmaster) and Craig Ennis (Joint Webmaster). The weather station on Bradwell Edge is up and running. A trial of the raw data feed to the website has already...
The club’s 2018 Annual General Meeting took place on 17 November and the minutes of that meeting are set out below. At the AGM, the club’s Chairman, Denis Walker, resigned. Lee Pearce has agreed to take on this role. Drew McLaughlin resigned as the club’s Webmaster, and this position remains vacant. Any members interested...
Notice of 2018 Annual General Meeting The club’s 2018 Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held at the Derbyshire and Lancashire Gliding Club Camphill clubhouse on Saturday the 17th of November at 7 pm. All members are welcome to attend, ask questions and vote. This year we’d like to provide a better social opportunity...
The DSC is run by a committee of volunteers who are elected at each AGM for the following year.. If there are vacancies during the year or the committee sees fit for any reason they can also co-opt members until the next AGM when a new committee is elected. Some of you will be...
Please see the following communication recieved today from Chanel 5 who will be filming using drones on our sites with approval from the Nation Trust. Pilots are advised to avoid the areas listed at while filming is in progress.
Just a heads up about a pre planned joint UK & overseas military exercise that’ll see various jets and military aircraft flying in around Yorkshire, especially around Leeds Bradford Airport who are the hosting airport. 3 Apaches have already been seen flying low level, under ridge height past Curbar on Wednesday. News Article
Hi All, We updated the website; this update had a focus on security. We applied critical patches to the forum software as well as enabling https on the site. Please let me know if you see any problems and we’ll fix them as quickly as we can. Thanks! ~Drew
Hi All, The website will be down for several hours on Thursday evening for maintenance work. Please get in touch if you suspect this might cause you any issues. Cheers, Drew
Here is the notice for the closures needed this year. It was designed to be simple and clear and so lacks any detail or explanation which I will post shortly. Click for a larger image. Den.