All the kit was out early with a large number of Wednesday people and course members keen to get going, but the first breath of wind stirred up the air and we were back in fog - we couldn't even find all the sheep first time round!
The course members went for a briefing and two launch lines were set up. The sky cleared at 10:00am and clouds started forming in the light westerly. Although the sky looked promising, no-one could find any lift and it didn't get soarable until lunchtime. And exactly as RASP predicted the soarable slot lasted for nearly two hours. Matt in M5 set off on task for Okehampton and Crewkerne, Pete St in Discus 230 was a bit later and got caught out at Okehampton, landing near Whiddon Down in the spreadout. Luckily Matt was already on final glide for North Hill, and set off on retrieve.
Rick and Chris C both completed their 50 solos. Geoff L and Nigel flew their newly acquired Pegase for the first time. A busy day with 72 winch launches.
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| Pete chalks up his first field of 2014 under a gloomy looking sky |
