Today dawned cold but cloudy and the forecast was for rain later on an incoming warm front. The kit was readied and taken to the launch point but the overnight cold soak on the canopies produced continuous misting in the cold moist air. A coffee break was called whilst further warmth was applied to the canopies. During the coffee break a little exercise on estimating speed of movement of fronts from the geostrophic wind scale on a synoptic chart was undertaken.
By mid-morning, we managed to get going and found that despite calm conditions at the launch point there was a significant westerly wind above 200ft allowing good 1800ft launches to be achieved.
In the afternoon, it went all smooth over Broadhembury in reduced sink extending flight times to 15 minutes. The rain held off until the hangar doors were closed, although it did get rather grey just before dusk.
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| Guess who? |
Ray, not wishing to be outdone by the green romper suit brigade sported a
fetching blue suit which he tried to hide inside his DSGC anorak.
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| Note the local airspace map in the kneepad pocket. |
