It was a bit of a quiet day at the Club today, there was an away match in the Inter-Club League, hosted by Wyvern GC at Upavon, and the word had got around that there would be no food available from the kitchen.
The low cloud quickly rose and broke to give good thermals to 3500'QNH by noon. Then the sea air arrived and within an hour cloudbase was 2000'QNH and most gliders were on the ground. The sea air never really got reinvigorated, so the day continued with circuits under a very hot bright blue sky and gentle southerly cross-wind.
ICL tasks from Upavon.
Pundit: PEW-OXS-LAS-UPA 169kms
Intermediate: PEW-ILS-LAS-UPA 134kms
Novice: ???
Reports suggest that conditions for the first one and a half legs round Oxford and back to Newbury were good and then the struggle in the blue started to Lasham and home. No results from the ICL are available yet.
