Continuing High pressure weather, with a strong North easterly wind, and today there was some annoying low cloud in the blue sky. The gliders were immediately covered in condensation as they came out of the hangar, so there was a leisurely set up of the launch point in the south west corner.
First launch was a weather check with the K13 reaching more than 1500ft, whilst the scenery was quite spectacular, the random cycling of the thin cumulus cloud layer between 800ft and 1000ft, made it too tricky to continue training. A coffee break was called which had to extend to an early lunch.
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| Mark waiting patiently to tow the Mile High trial lesson (Mark C) |
The air gradually dried out and the afternoon meant a lot of catching up of training, solo flying and trial lessons which all ran very smoothly.
The first Trial lesson was a Mile High flight and Chris managed to find a little bit of wave over Broadhembury, but otherwise the flights were just extended by the height of the launches and broken lift, with variable large amounts of sink and potential clutching hands behind the ridge. - J & P
