The airmass was very moist having travelled across the Atlantic round the High pressure, but fortunately there was a bit of high ground upwind that helped to dry it out. Disappointing that everyone arrived to find North Hill in low cloud, although it was more promising in the Exe valley.
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| Cups of tea to start (Jill) |
So following a few jobs completed in the morning involving (amongst other things) fire and water, there was an early lunch and a pitch inspection. The ground was quite firm but would have cut up too much on the winch run, so aerotow only was set up.
Paul K tried out his first aerotow, a number of others had currency checks or flew the Junior.
Cloudbase varied as pulses of low cloud cycled through, but most aerotows got to 2000ft apart from when there was a little drizzle, but there were good gaps at times with even some patches of blue sky.
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| Aerotows managed to find some nice gaps (Peter Sm) |
So we managed to squeeze 12 flights out of the day, with Dave C claiming the longest flight of 18 minutes, so not a day of long flights but everyone enjoyed getting airborne again after the nasty run of poor weather. - J&P
