By 9:00 this morning I was beginning to think that a "non flying day" had been declared, there were so few members at the club.
After helping to get the kit out, Lizzie and Josh had lectures to
prepare them for their day's flying by Mark C and Simon L in the lecture room,
Pete F (duty instructor) had to look very hard for pupils to instruct!
Conditions were already looking promising, when Ron J and Chris W
turned up and prepared the ASH we had a feeling that the day would give us
something!
Right from the start it was possible to use the ridge, early
thermals started popping and streets of lift appeared near the club.
Single seaters ENW (Simon L) SM (Simon M) ASW29 (Eric A) John S
(B4) Andrew L (K6) Paul S (Cirrus) all had long flights - some in excess of
three hours.
Ron and Chris disappeared in search of wave, some promising slots
formed, unfortunately they quickly
filled in; the whole sky was by now very fluid, some thermals were very tight
and powerful low down, others formed big and wide from ridge height and boomed
all the way to 3500 ft!
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| Promising sky |
The conditions started to get a little feisty with the wind now
northerly at times, the pupils who turned up today were treated to some
fantastic flying Although the sky was difficult to decipher they all made great strides towards
"reading" the sky.
With the lack of students, instructors were able to fly together,
it was great to see Pete W and John S enjoy a long soaring flight in the trusty
K13.Henry did his usual trick of staying up whilst the hanger was
packed, landing just before the sheep were let out!
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| Liam in the winch |
A great day was enjoyed by the few members who turned up, I can
only assume that people were at home watching England vs Germany in the World
Cup final, or they were watching Murray in the final at Wimbledon, there can't
have been any other reason to miss such a good day surely ?? - MC (ed: need to catch up after your holiday Mark!)
