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This fashionably late post continues the story of my gliding adventures into the 2021 season. Everything had been set up for the previous year to be the one in which I entered my first rated gliding competition. Silver badge done, some exposure to inter-club competition, club task weeks and a little bit of other cross country practice meant that the only thing to do would be to get on with it. Unfortunately the pandemic put paid to that, so I would do it in 2021 instead. We fly year round at Sutton Bank; with ridge and wave opportunities making sure that we have soaring opportunities at any time of year - I think I have said before that we are very lucky. Unfortunately, this weather can't be guaranteed, and being on the top of a hill does mean that we can also be snow and fog bound in the darker months, seemingly for weeks at a time. This is not really the time of year to use days off from work to go flying, so you take your chances that the weekend will throw up something that is

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