A foggy start and everyone feared the worst, even though the forecast was suggesting a clearance - it caught everyone out, and so it was a slow start in the brilliant sunshine, with a long walk to the north west corner for the light southerly wind.
First launch was Simon M and Pete B on a 4000ft aerotow from the east end. Rowan started making some headway with the flying list which sped up once Steve arrived.
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| Practice rope break coming (Simon M) |
There was a little bit of soaring up to the 2000ft cloudbase but mainly a day of circuits.By lunchtime some medium level clouds fed in and some ac castellanus were forming overhead.
Late afternoon, some ominous looking clouds started forming to the south, soon followed by flashing and banging and some heavy rain which put a halt to proceedings.
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| It's stopped raining (Lisa) |
Most of the gliders were walked back to the hangar, although Simon M and Pete B found a brief interlude in the rain to take one last winch launch to complete the very busy day, for his BI rating.
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| Well done Pete (Simon M) |
We look forward to seeing Pete flying some Trial lessons in the future - at 16yrs, probably one of the youngest BI's in the country. - J&P
