About A470 Soaring


This is the blog for a few guys who spend their time flying radio controlled gliders, or slope soarer's, from the many and varied slopes around SE Wales.

This usually begins at the northern end of Cardiff, driving north up the A470 up to the Heads of the Valley's and the southern fringe of the Brecon Beacons. But the A470 road continues its windy way all the way to N Wales.

There are many slopes available for most wind directions, the most famous being the area between Nant-y-Moel and Treorchi known as The Bwlch, which has some of the best slopes and flying in Europe with many F3F competitions being held there each year and visited by many fliers from Europe and around the world. At 1500 feet (450m) above sea level, there is usually more wind than not, and certainly more than at sea level.

If you require any further information, are new to slope soaring or are visiting the area, please contact Steve at steve.houghton59@gmail.com . I look forward to hearing from you.

Take a look at Page 2 (look below and to the left here) for Google maps of our most popular Flying Sites.


Tuesday, 18 April 2017

PSSA meet 8th/9th April 2017

I'm not going to say a lot about this meet, except that we couldn't fly on the Saturday due to a lack of wind, but Sunday made up for this and the lift wasn't bad at all.

Hopefully I have now broken my jinx and we will have plenty of wind for the rest of the years PSS events.

There were plenty of models taking to the skies, including some new ones, in particular Dirk Tinck's Fouga Magister and the P51 Mustang by Matt Jones.

Hopefully I will see some of you at the next PSS event at the Bwlch over the 20th/21st May.


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