Sunday 7th June

With a steady breeze from the North East the launch point was set up in the South West corner of the field and daily inspections completed on both K21s, both Juniors and a K13 (R37).

Mid-morning the thermals started, but as ever getting away from the winch was down to whether pilots could make the most of the opportunity to do so.

Several private owners, seeing some gliders not getting away off the winch, chose to aero-tow instead .

K13 at the launch-point (Mike Sl)

Around lunchtime the thermals became a little sparse but then "re-cycled" providing an afternoon of thermals all over the sky - with climbs up to circa 4000 ft cloud base achieved by some.

Great Devon sky (Mike Sl)

During the day we had some aero-tow Trial Lesson flights, some returning Open Day visitors using their temporary membership and several newly joined Junior members keen to learn flying and ground skills. 
But the big news of the day was: 
 

Josh goes solo and soars for nearly an hour (Simon L)

Congratulations to Josh, having just turned 14yrs, had all the right conditions (and ticks in boxes) for his first solo, and then soared for almost an hour on his first flight.
- Mike Sl

Cross-country flights

Simon M ASW20 SM, Henry Cirrus COR, James ASW20 ENW, all completed NHL - Blandford, The Park, Cullompton -NHL for 203 km.

Tom  DG100 DG1 attempted a 300 km but fell back to out and return to Chilbolton. 

Rowan Libelle CLM completed NHL- Wimbleball, Tiverton, Beer Head, Crewkerne for 144 km.

Pete St Discus 230 completed NHL - Iwerne Minster, Tetbury, Sturminster Newton -NHL for 303 km.