Wednesday's forecast was a light N/W wind with wall-to-wall sun, all the club gliders were out early and the flying list was long. What
we got was a moderate N/E wind so all the gliders were walked up to the S/W
corner only to be flown down to the clubhouse end as the wind had backed to a
light southerly.
Eventually the wind went westerly, the soaring was
broken and difficult at times but most pilots had soaring flights many of
over an hour, Tim flew his ASW19, Pete St the Discus and Nick the flew the
Oly, Congratulations to Mark L for converting to the Cirrus and soaring it.
Pete & Jill had a long flight in OL - "RASP showed a convergence from Exmoor to Portland from mid-afternoon, and as we climbed under one of the few clouds near North Hill, a line began to appear as forecast. Cloudbase was higher over the Blackdowns, but either end, cloudbase got lower and the convergence line got quite messy. We flew 4 lengths of the convergence roughly Tiverton East to Axminster."
With the warm sun many white legs were to be seen
given their first airing of the season, it was nice to see Ian King back after a
long lay off.
A visitor with a Triumph made a good photo call with the Oly. - The car is a Triumph Renown, owned by a guy from Dunkeswell. His
Triumph club members had been tasked to get pictures of their cars in an
interesting surrounding - where better than DSGC, alongside another
delectable British veteran, the Olympia 463, which was out for its 1st
flights following annual CofA (Annex II), and very well she flew too.
The Wednesday club handed the gliders over to Simon M
& Stu for one of the first Trial lesson evenings of the season. Some members attended the Olympic airspace briefing at Dunkeswell in the evening.- JSt & JH
