As a precursor to this blog post a
special mention and thanks goes out to those who helped out at last
week’s group evenings at both NHL and Brentor, both Wimbleball
Sailing Club and Sidmouth Gig Rowing Club had excellent evenings this
week. Meanwhile in Devon, Mr Sloggs ran a successful group evening at
Brentor gliding club kindly assisted by Mark C, Paul S, Matthew
W, Tim P and several Dartmoor Gliding Society members.
Chris H is seeking members to
help with future group evenings, please check the DSGC online
calendar if you are able to help out on any evenings.
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| Brentor Church overlooking BNT airfield. |
Back at NH on Sunday...
From the attendance in the clubhouse Sunday morning you’d be forgiven for thinking that it was a
beautiful summers day, unfortunately the weather was as forecast and
out of the window we were greeted with miserable spring conditions.
People took the opportunity to do chores; JB fettled HEB in the
workshop prior to the annual inspection, Pete S fitted gadgets and others
fine-tuned overhead projector facilities in the briefing room.
Tim and Matthew drove up from
Plymouth along with the terrible weather and the cold front, JP’s
ritual Friday synoptic analysis had already promised and delivered
one good morning of flying, so they knew the afternoon could provide
some pretty spectacular conditions! Thankfully by 14:00 the front
cleared and the unstable airmass coupled with a very brisk WNW made
for some fantastic flying.
It was soarable from the start with
very strong and boisterous thermals, the ridge was also working as a
reliable safetynet if you managed to find yourself in the areas of
the equally as strong sink! The list was worked through by Mike
Sl, JB and Pete W. With 3 two-seaters online
and everyone having soaring flights everyone got a chance to
experience the conditions.
Matthew W’s enthusiasm had rubbed
off on Simon M, he decided to take break from soft furnishings
and 70’s lampshades to rig SM and join H5 playing in the cloud
streets that set up to the West out and beyond Tiverton.
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SM Air-braking down
over the valley.
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Matthew got his gliding fix for the
week with a flight of just under 3 hours.
Quote from JB - “The easiest
instructor duty I’ve done for a while, Mike and Pete did all the
instructing and I had 3 nice soaring flights!”
As usual Henry turned up at the end
of the day [Ed: Really? Read yesterday's blog! ] and jumped in a glider for a soaring flight with JB, rounding out at 19:34 to end a great afternoon's flying!
A great day of teamwork and
perseverance for all those at North Hill today! - H5 Matt
