Wow- what a day - and its only February! The forecast had suggested a good day since mid-week, I don't think I've ever seen that many private gliders (13) out at this time of year before. It was a good cold start with a nice ridge building, soaring started before 11am and was almost continuous all day until late afternoon. There were 2-4 knot thermals to 3000ft, and cloud streets north- westerly. A cloud street just to the north of the Blackdowns was raining (or actually snowing) nearly all day, but it washed out the sky at lunchtime and we actually had a slight shower on the airfield at 5pm.
Congratulations to Rowan and Jack (Mendip) for successfully completing their BI checkout. Thanks to Adam for completing the checks. Congratulations to Stuart P for getting his Stage 1 & 2 BGA MGIR signed off with a navigation exercise to Eyres Field (Dorset) with Simon M in VG.
Congratulations also to Dylan for his first 2 hours soaring flight in LS7 480.
There were 9 flights of 1-3 hours and other soaring flights that allowed for crew changes.
The DG505 was derigged ready for its annual inspection.
