Wednesday 1st April -No Fools here!

Well done again Met Office for discouraging some of the Wednesday followers from turning up!
As the heavy wind and rain was forecast to arrive at midday we rushed to get as many flights in before we were rained off, John St & Mike Fitz were first away again and had an easy hour on the ridge before descending on airbrakes, as the day progressed there were good thermals to 3,000ft.
At 1:00pm, still no sign of rain Eric was persuaded to return to the winch (he had stopped for a well- deserved break) we launched 3 more gliders who spent the hour in the air whilst everyone else had lunch.
We flew all day and every flight was a soaring flight, we welcomed new member Dan, a local Head teacher whose previous club was Wittering, Dan has a Silver and he had a nice introduction to our ridge from Peter Sm.
Dan and Peter (John St)
We managed 19 flights with 12 hrs soaring, no private gliders flew today - they didn't rig because of the forcast, the rain that was promised finally arrived as we were putting the gliders away at 5:30pm. - JSt