A bright early start, with everything ready to go before 10:00am, with a light north westerly wind and a smattering of wispy clouds at 1000ft.
First up was Douglas with some circuits and launch failure consolidation, following last weeks successful course. Congratulations to Douglas for his first solo for 20 years having restarted gliding and joining DSGC in January.
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| Douglas resoloes |
The morning continued with circuits and slightly extended circuits as the cloudbase rose to nearly 2000ft. By lunchtime it became more soarable which encouraged some private owners to join the launch queue, but with increasing top cover - as forecast.
Late afternoon, Malcolm and Pete doing aerotow training contacted wave just above cloudbase at 1800ft on the normal ridge hotspot up to 3800ft. Pete St in 230 had been struggling to contact wave for over an hour and finally made the breakthrough at a similar time climbing to 4800ft. Wooly and Chris M had two attempts and finally got in as well but only to 1800ft.
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| 230 in the gentle wave under the overcast sky |
