Saturday 27th March

The promise of a nice afternoon and the forecast for a lousy Sunday brought out 41 members to fly today. There were some doubts in the morning that the low cloud would clear, but just past noon the sun started breaking up the stratus at 1000ft and the ridge huggers could start to find some thermals kicking off. As the sky opened up late afternoon there was clearly some wave interference from the north westerly wind, but nothing workable. 15 gliders enjoyed flights of over an hour with Pete in 230 over 3 hours soaring. There were 76 winch launches for the whole club fleet and 10 private gliders which kept the launch point busy.