A bright start and quite a few members, got 4 gliders out of the hangar and readied, and there were some interesting cloud formations to the south.......
............but then the sky turned black, it looked like rain so they were put back in the hangar. After a coffee, and a chat about streets and wave, it brightened up so we set off for the south west corner, where the wind had strengthened to gusts of 24knots, so two-seater flying was the order of the day and mostly only one in the air at a time. The banks of low cloud appeared stationary on either side of the airfield, but they kept appearing and disappearing almost in between launches. A couple of launches contacted some weak wave for a few beats, longest flight was 12 minutes. After lunch, the wind suddenly dropped right out and the low cloud disappeared, but the visibility did not improve much.
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| Pileous cloud - the pileus is essentially an accessory cloud, that appears as a smooth cap, or hood above a cumulus or cumulonimbus cloud. The cap forms when a humid layer is lifted to its dew point above a rising thermal. |
............but then the sky turned black, it looked like rain so they were put back in the hangar. After a coffee, and a chat about streets and wave, it brightened up so we set off for the south west corner, where the wind had strengthened to gusts of 24knots, so two-seater flying was the order of the day and mostly only one in the air at a time. The banks of low cloud appeared stationary on either side of the airfield, but they kept appearing and disappearing almost in between launches. A couple of launches contacted some weak wave for a few beats, longest flight was 12 minutes. After lunch, the wind suddenly dropped right out and the low cloud disappeared, but the visibility did not improve much.
