Wednesday 19th September

Various forecasts suggesting that this could be one of the last good soaring days of the year. The early sky showed areas of thick bands of cloud - which didn't look too promising. It improved significantly at lunchtime with cloudbase up to 3500ft, and north westerly streets and wavey looking clouds.
Pete & Jill Duo Discus OL and Dylan LS7 W7 each had 3.5 hours staying fairly local.
The cloudscape seemed to change every time we got to the top of the thermal.

North west streets over Wimbleball Reservoir

 At the end of the day, there was a visitor from Aerosaurus Balloons.

Balloon 'taxiing' across the airfield

 Congratulations to Lisa for turning St Catherines Point IOW with Nympsfield ridge guru Trevor.
More details of where the 3 musketeers (Matt, Pete St and JB) ended up - to come.

Matt and JB jumped on to the St Catherines Point (SCP) bandwagon but both thought better of it when they got to Portsmouth and headed back for NYM – still a goodly task. Matt landed at Kemble and aerotowed back, to help with the retrieves.

 

Pete St went on the club set task of NYM-ALT-MAR-BAS-NYM(320km). Was going well but the dreaded spreadout and large blue gaps started appearing which meant long glides between thermals at best L/D which of course cuts the x-c speed down and then day switched off quite rapidly.

 

Apart from 2 open class gliders that launched first (Lisa being in one of them with Trevor), everybody from NYM landed out today, either actually or by turbo start or cut their tasks short.

 

Still a great day fro the 3rd week in September.