News from Portmoak
The day started with ice covered cars and gliders and no wind.
The lack of wind continued through the morning and only circuits were being flown by the locals.
After lunch, and more in desperation than anything else, we started launching and blow me, Benarty was working just enough to stay airborne.The odd Cu then started to pop which meant we could climb away from the ridge and push North beyond Loch Leven and eventually into weak wave. All 3 types of soaring in one flight although it was quite difficult to pinpoint the wave as there were no wave bars.
JB eventually got to 10k', helium filled Matt to just under 10k', and yours truly to 9.3k'.
John B in M5 and Ron/Woolly in 711 beat the ridge to death and got into some weak wave as well.
I'll leave you to guess who was last to land today but it was around 18:00 shortly followed by the thousands of geese.
So, a day of weak ridge,weak thermal and weak wave but the best bit about today is that viz was stunning in the almost cloudless sky and a real bonus.We could see the big mountains to the North West and the guys on the radio in Aboyne were reporting being able to see the Western Isles from where they were.
I don't want to come home :(
