Today's quandary - which end to set up the launch point? With our broadband temporarily U/S it was a bit of a guessing game, Initially the wind was light and slightly more from the east of south, so the Club gliders were trekked to the end of the field. The cloudbase didn't seem to be rising very much and was between 1500-1800ft, but the training operation got going. Then the private owners with great expectation started drip-feeding their gliders down both sides of the field, which interrupted things somewhat. With all that space on the airfield, it was surprisingly difficult to fit all the gliders around the launch point waiting for the cloud base to improve.
A few private owners launched before lunchtime, but most waited as the cloudbase still hadn't improved much.
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| Crowded launchpoint and nice looking sky |
Mid-afternoon, the surface wind swung round to a noticeable westerly and with a shear as the wind at cloud base remained southeasterly.
Matt in M5 ASW24 managed to squeeze a task out of the day, by creeping off to Tiverton east and then looking for seabreeze danglies over Wellington and Taunton, turning Yeovil in the process, and then struggling back under wishy washy clouds. - But another Club 100 in the bag. Mark L in 477 Cirrus managed a little task to Hembury Hill and back (obviously competing for the Pissoir Trophy).
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| Dragon's Breath over Taunton |
