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Welcome to an archive of photos of the Avon Hang-gliding and Paragliding Club. Here you'll find photos of members past and present along with pictures of sites and gliders. If you have any images you'd like to have included please send them along.
Avon Aerotow
| Total images: 22
The Avon club's aerotow group
Draycott SW and W
| Total images: 31
Draycott SW, a great place to fly when it is on. It hardly ever is though, as it is very sensitive to wind direction. Draycott W is now mainly flown by paragliders, but that wasn't always the case. Also included here are photo from a few other sites close to the Mendips.
Frocester
| Total images: 29
Frocester, "the" WNW XC site before Class D at Lynham etc.
General
| Total images: 78
Pictures of Avon pilots out and about on nearby sites.
Haresfield
| Total images: 11
An unoficial site in the north of our region. Known as "scares field"
Long Knoll
| Total images: 6
A great place to fly on a late summer day.
Maes Knoll
| Total images: 5
Rarely flown nowerdays so this pics are a rare glimpse of days gone by.
Mere
| Total images: 68
Photos from the days of the active rifle range and later. Hard to believe that we often couldn't fly until after 16:00.
Parties
| Total images: 39
Club events and parties
Snowdonia2002
| Total images: 18
A damp club trip in Summer 2002. Great fun despite the weather.
Trips abroad
| Total images: 277
Pictures of Avon pilots out and about in foreign parts.
Ubley
| Total images: 22
The best Avon XC site, now lost. I hope those who thought trees were more important than people are roasting nicely down below.
Westbury
| Total images: 229
My favourite site. For more photos see Sarah's galleries on http://www.avonhgpg.co.uk/wow/gallery.htm