Tuesday 1st January - New Year's Day

New Year - New weather - let's hope!

The rain has stopped and the airfield started draining as usual, some sunshine and a fresh north westerly wind helped the process. And with a lateish start a dry line was identified on the high ground to enable aerotow only launches. There was a good (desperate?) group of members after nearly three weeks with no flying.

Mike Fitz took the honours (56 mins) with the first flight of 2013 in the Junior with the ridge working well and occasional thermals.

The Fitz

Stu and Martin went to check out the south coast in VG.

K21, Junior and Ka6 all soared on the ridge although at times it got a bit tricky with more north in the wind, most got over 20 minutes of soaring. Ruth flew her first training aerotows, John Si raced the tug back in his usual 'upside-down' way. Henry had the longest flight (59mins) mid-afternoon all at low level on the ridge.

All the tuggies got back in check sharing a total of 15 aerotows, and a good time was had by all. The longest flight was one minute short of an hour!

There was a good deal of washing at the end of the day.

Muddy patterns

Happy New Year to all our readers.