Day 3 of Ron's cross country week
Didn't look too promising to start with as there was a lot of top cover, by lunchtime a few ragged cumulus started popping underneath, there was then some frantic activity that launched Ron & Chris (711), Daniel (611) and Matt (477) into a soarable sky and then the wind changed requiring a change of ends and in that time the sea air engulfed the field and pushed any usable clouds well to the north. Peter (DG1) followed by Pete (230), John (M5) took aerotows and JB (KJW) took a winch launch and turboed to the clouds. 230 expressed conditions as dire and returned quickly followed by M5. Meanwhile Roly (523) and Pete & Jill (OL) declined launches - hoping for better tomorrow! The early launchers completed the 100Km task, Peter landed near Ilminster, JB followed a convergence zone to Shepton Mallet and motored back from Taunton. Club flying continued with circuits followed by an evening group. Very good flying in the evening with most visitors having second flights. It was very still with no signs of lift and the group enjoyed the flying promising to come back for another session.
