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Flying Scot is the newsletter of the Scottish Hang gliding and Paragliding Federation with which LLSC are affiliated. Also listed here are LLSC newsletters, trip reports to foreign climes and short articles about flying at Scottish sites to enjoy. We hope you get inspired and write an article of your own.

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Important News, Articles and Trip Reports

Club Coach Notes (mostly extracted from the newsletters and written by LLSC members unless noted)

Feb 26th - 2005 SHPF are running another reserve zipwire deployment and reserve repack event at the National Rock Climbing Centre near Ratho. See the message board for details.

 

Dec 2004 Flying Scot in PDF Format (337kB)

 

Apr 21 2004 - Sad news that John Moore died of a stroke today. Tributes including a poem by Peter Dreghorn can be seen on the club message board.

 

Feb 2004 Flying Scot in PDF format (601kB)

 

Feb 2004 LLSC newsletter in PDF format (240kB)

Active Flying

Oct 2003 LLSC newsletter in PDF format (254kB)

Winter Flying

Sep 2003 Report from British Open in Laragne, PG

Thermal Thinking

May 2003 - Trip to Annecy, France, PG

Increasing Safety Margins

Jan 2003 Flying Scot Newsletter in PDF format (756kB)

Welcome to the Dive by Alastair Bowman

Sep 2002 Flying Scot Newsletter in PDF format (539kB)

 

2001 - Trip to Crete, PG

 

2001 - Club Winch Group Info

 

Dec 2001 LLSC newsletter in PDF format (281kB)

 

Dec 2001 Fairlie affected by no fly zones

 

Oct 2001 Scottish PG and HG winch group newsletter in PDF (230kB)

 

Sep 2001 Flying Scot

 

Jul 2001 LLSC newsletter FM Update

 

Feb 2001 Pictures taken on day of SHPF AGM

 

Early 2001 Trip to Nepal, PG

 

2001 Club Coach Notes - Flying Abroad

 

Jul 2001 LLSC newsletter

 

Oct 2000 LLSC newsletter

 

Jul 2000 Trip to Aonach Mor, PG

 

May 2000 LLSC newsletter

 

Apr 2000 Trip to Glencoe, PG

 

Apr 2000 Tinto to Haddington, PG

 

Mar 2000 LLSC newsletter

 

2000 - Trip to Rio, Brazil HG

 

2000 - Trip to Alicante, Spain, PG

 

Winter 1999 - LLSC Newsletter

 

Oct 1999 LLSC Newsletter

 

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