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I didn't train last week because clear sky's east winds lads who trained n had some bad tosses beat me Saturday racing,,
My only thoughts are do these bad tosses on East winds do damage further down the programme or do they just rebound n carry on as normal

Morning Neil, some pigeons probably handle east winds better than others but my opinion for what it's worth is you'd probably come unstuck going against that wind if it was on a regular basis.
Also loose a percentage of your team in doing so, always in my mind a drying wind that messes with orientation jmo, I think you'd be better doing what your doing successfully your pigeons are always knocking on the door so I wouldn't be over thinking things.

I always remember from my school days, nearly 55 years ago, my geography teacher told me alot of the cause of poor visibility in East winds is due to all the dirty air blowing in from the industrial Northern Europe, across the North sea , as Mike says, it's also a dry wind. On the other hand, the west wind is more moist dragging in all the moisture from the Atlantic, apart from Ireland, there's nothing else till you reach the East coast of America.
It's like when we get a strong south wind, it brings up the dust from the Sahara, and a good North West wind normally brings the best visibility.
Sounds too simple to be true, but I think it's basically correct?

NeilA wrote: Tue Apr 28, 2026 1:32 pm Do you think it’s ok to loft fly a hour ? Rather than train 15 miles

Say this Thursday for example

Can't answer I had great loft fly last Thursday lads in club most trained n had bad toss but some still got birds in front of mine Saturday pal ,it's awkward ain't it.

Never really bothered about the wind. East is not ideal early in the season for yearlings as it can be very cold if NE. A SE was a good racing wind. The only race I didn't want any East was the NFC YB National, the leading birds crossing into Cornwall was a disaster for members in the longer flying East sections.

NeilA wrote: Tue Apr 28, 2026 11:01 am What’s members thoughts on East winds

I never like training in them

But a good ex fancier told me I should as drumming in the last 15-20 miles constantly has more benefit than allowing them to fly a hour at home in a east wind

I can see his point

What’s others views am I wrong and him right as a 15 mile toss does mean there in the sky less in a East wind

I don’t mind them as long as there is some sun. So offer here when the wind is east or North east we get thick cloud cover and there’s no definition to the cloud, I’ve found those days can be lethal.