Members’ adventures April 2025

More great weather, more flying, more ideas for excitement, challenges, flying abroad and – perhaps most importantly – cafes!

Gemma Wickens on the climbout at Turweston, which she reports has “not a bad cafe”!

Amber Dash on a zone transit of Stansted.

Amelia Richardson over the Seven Sisters Cliffs.

Bev Reardon looking down on Lichfield Cathedral.

Ellie Geary managed to make her first non-circuit glider flight! It was also her first aerotow and her first time in a Schliecher K13.

Elizabeth Wein flying with her husband to Key West from Miami.

Holly Ashurst doing aerobatics in an RV7.

Helen Hennessey downwind for runway 29 at Athboy Arodrome in a 1946 Champ.

Jayne Stubbs took a flight over the Peak District.

Sarah Smith over Church Stretton in front of the Carding Mill Valley and the Long Mynd.

Steph Smith took fellow BWPA member Jackie Manthorpe on a flight in a Tiger Moth.

Vero Pepperell seeing the Isle of Wight for the first time after 20 years of living in the UK!

Grace Lister in lovely sunny conditions at 4000 ft around Cambridgeshire.