What a day! on arriving at the
club you could be excused looking at the sky and thinking it was going
to be a rubbish day, a north easterly wind, very cold and poor vis, but by 10:15, we had three gliders in the air and all soaring - all three had to
air-brake down after long flights.
It
was a day of two halves, - in the morning all the gliders had soaring
flights with a 4,000ft cloudbase with most having to use the airbrakes
to get down.
During the day there were times when there no gliders on the ground, we had four two-seaters in use and both Juniors.
Matt ASW24 M5, Pete St Discus 230, Tim and Joe ASW19 877, Robert Astir DKU and Eric ASG29 all flew their own gliders. Matt 84 km, Pete 63 km and Eric 70 km flew round some of the local turnpoints but in very poor visibility
During the afternoon the visibility improved, but the soaring diminished with an overcast sky.
Flying finished at about 5:30, thanks to the team who rigged CCY, now once again we have a full hangar.
We managed 51 flights today, several over two hours and many over an hour and two trial lessons. - JSt
And Chris H was kept busy all day...
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