The forecast on RASP was one of the best for our region so far this year, and members turned out in force. It started off a little slowly, bright and cool, fresh north westerly, but lowish clouds, by the time we were ready to launch it was soarable to cloudbase at 2000ft.
There were some heavy showers in the morning over Tiverton and the motorway, but they missed North Hill, but did cause the Junior pilots to rush back to site.
During the morning, the Supacat winch was given an airing by William and Aston, there were a couple of 'interesting launches' but the vast majority of them were OK. By lunchtime, it was decided to revert to the Skylaunch and we had an empty launchpoint at various times during the afternoon.
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| Pete St 230 launching into a lovely sky (Mark L) |
New member Martin with his T31 enjoyed the circuits of North Hill with a variety of Thursday regulars experiencing their first open cockpit flights.
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| Martin with Ray in T31 (Mark L) |
The private owners completed a variety of Club 100's in various directions, but most gliders found their way into the convergence along the south coast at some point.
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| Superb convergence (Ron) |
Cloudbase rose to just over 5000ft above North Hill and well done to Dave C in Pilatus B4 for his best Ladder flight so far taking in all the local turnpoints in 2:34.
Congratulations to George for completing his Bronze Flying tests with Chris W.
A very nice day for North Hill this spring. - J&P
