Chairman's Chat 7th May 2008.

Phil has nearly "finished" rebuilding/republishing the clubs website. The phrase "finished" is a bit premature as a web site it is never going to be finished. I must express a big vote of thanks from all the membership and especially from myself for all the work he has put in. I know how long and tedious the job of republishing the site was, I had been just putting it off, with the result the job just got bigger and bigger.

Phil and myself will continue to add pages and items. Phil will keep the blog going with the occasional input of a few choice words from myself. This way we can avoid the frequent large gaps when I am away, plus Phil seems to be able to get far better flying shots than I do. I will be adding further technical articles including "finishing" the getting started pages (honest).

However we do need further contributions from club members, model reviews, learning experiences, use of simulators or even just a few lines about a days flying. The odd photo also. You don't have to have web skills just a few notes will do even better if you can do it in "word" we can do the rest.

If you do spot a mistake, broken links, missing pictures, wrongly named person/model or even any grammatical errors please let Phil know. See address at bottom of page.

It's over a month since the clocks changed but nobody seems to have told the weather. According to the records there were 12 dry days in April! Somebody must have left the lid "on" the rain gauge as it didn't seem like it to me. Despite this several new members have been out flying between the showers. Quite a few new helicopter pilots, this is causing a few problems will write more on this very soon.

Personally I didn't quite get all the flying in I would have liked, still have to perfect my helicopter circuits, but I have been able to catch up on the building program.

Chris Bishop

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Weather for today and tomorrow in Gloucestershire  

Try this link for a look at the local forecast for the next 48 hours.  

It gives details of forecast; temperature, rain, cloud, wind direction and most useful of all wind speed every 3 hours for the next two days.

Live Gloucester weather.

This site gives a good idea of current weather, although the actual weather at Standish lane can be slightly different do to its location in the Severn valley and the local topography of the Cotswold escarpment.

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About this site.  

The site was set up in November 2006,  with the purpose of promoting the Gloucester Model Flying Club and to promote model flying the Gloucester area. It also serves as the newsletter of the GMFC. So please keep returning to check out what's going on.

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