Saturday 20th April

After our record 11 flights on the ladder yesterday, we can't compete with ~100 flights on the ladder today as the weather in the rest of the country was not replicated in Devon.
There was very little wind to start with ......
Mike demonstrates the use of a calibrated handkerchief
and RASP didn't promise much, but it was thermic in the morning. However the seaair marched through at around 14:00-15:00, with the sky going blue, but later it did get going again with some very small tight climbs to 3,100 ft were possible if you could stay high.
Andrew L K6 GDE and Tim J ASW19 877 managed just over an hour and Henry Cirrus OR and Martin LS3 KMV for hour and half.
But otherwise there were a large number of short flights - 72 winch launches. Paul L renewed his acquaintance with SF27.