Recent content by Creamcrackered

Is the gliding club at Husband Bosworth too far?

Good programme on a farmer's eye view of TB testing on Radio 4 this morning. You can catch it again here

I think "Lean" is a poor name for a set of very effective techniques. It is often mis-understood to be a about de-manning or reducing labour, when what it is really about is getting more efficient by reducing waste - "waste" being defined as anything or any activity that doesn't add value to...

300m is about the smallest field length you can get into - 500m makes life a lot easier.

Yes. Pilots are trained to start looking for suitable fields when they are down to 1,500', so have a choice of fields within a 2-3 mile radius. In rough order of priority they look for: 1) Empty pasture 2) Stubble 3) Silage, preferably mown If 1) - 3) aren't available we'll look at newly...

I am glider pilot that has lurked on this forum for a couple of years. Over the last week my club, Cotswold Gliding Club, hosted the Junior National Championships – we had 65 youngsters (16-25) racing around routes of up to 320km across the country. Due to the unfavourable conditions a...