With a forecast of an improving day weather-wise a small, but keen group prepared the field for flying.
Mid-morning a weather check flight evidenced that the South Ridge was working reasonably well allowing some extended flights using the available lift to good effect.
With a careful eye being kept on the weather, flying continued until lunchtime when the darkening skies and 'flashes and rumbles' gave warning of time to stop flying, with prudence suggesting that the gliders would be best out of harm's way in the hangar. A good decision as the view from the hangar shows - a huge downpour of rain, with the Clubhouse weather station recording 230 mm per hour of rain in just a few minutes.
Mid-morning a weather check flight evidenced that the South Ridge was working reasonably well allowing some extended flights using the available lift to good effect.
With a careful eye being kept on the weather, flying continued until lunchtime when the darkening skies and 'flashes and rumbles' gave warning of time to stop flying, with prudence suggesting that the gliders would be best out of harm's way in the hangar. A good decision as the view from the hangar shows - a huge downpour of rain, with the Clubhouse weather station recording 230 mm per hour of rain in just a few minutes.
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| 9mm of rain today |
With the 'safety' decision
made, lunch was taken and optimism was in abundance around the weather
clearing through for an afternoon of more flying. The optimism
was sadly not supported by the weather which did eventually improve mid
afternoon but all too late and with a water logged field the decision
was made to call it a day....
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| Amazing how quickly the field drains |
...and go home with a drive home in the
sunshine which soon turned into more rain -so the
decision to stop flying for the day turned out to be the right one. - Mike Sl
