It was a good forecast, but not many members, and the promising looking start soon changed to spreadout. By lunchtime, the north westerly wind picked up a bit, and blue sky reappeared with the sunshine producing some decent thermals, tempting some private owners to take a launch. The ridge was working reasonably well, and at times the sky got quite black, but it turned out to be soarable underneath to 2000ft. Pete St had the longest flight with 2:34.
Congratulations to Mike K on his first solo, and soaring on his second flight.
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| Mike enjoys his first solo |
Thanks to Mark and James for helping out on the afternoon Instructing slot.
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It was good to see Nick today - he was out of hospital on a day release for good behaviour! - but he looks forward to more visitors next week.
It was good to see Nick today - he was out of hospital on a day release for good behaviour! - but he looks forward to more visitors next week.
Junior Nationals - Lasham
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| First Briefing |
There were two tasks set, one
200km and the other 150km with one of the turnpoints brought in by 25km. The
forecast was good, but with top cover sure to come in at about 4pm giving
us 4 - 5 hours of flying. But as the story always seems to go the top
cover came in early, getting away was easy and soaring locally for the
hour before they opened the start line flew by (pun intended) but the
jump north over Basingstoke was tricky. It was soarable at Lasham and it
was soarable about 15km north, I restarted twice - just trying to get
enough energy to cross the gap comfortably, but in the end when I went for it
along with several others we all ended up in odd fields around
Basingstoke.
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| Field no. 1 - looks plenty big enough |
I think about half of the Juniors landed out... I'm not
alone! - Liam (ed: Happy Birthday Liam -solo 3 years ago)
