A day in which most club
members arrived at North Hill more in hope than expectation, after an early
field inspection it was decided that at present the field was still to
wet and also there was orographic cloud forming on the ridge.
After
another inspection at 11:30am it was decided the field was dry enough,
so by 12:30 we were ready to fly, it was nice to be winching again and
some pilots hadn't winched since December, the launches were good and the
flying pleasant in the sunny conditions.
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| Ready to Winch launch (Mark L) |
There was a bit of
entertainment for some after lunch, part of Dick's caravan that
was in the process of being taken apart finished up in the next field
thanks to the strong wind we had on Monday saving him a lot of time in
further demolition, after all the bits had been removed it was back to
flying.
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| Recovering the caravan debris from Storm Imogen''s grip (Geoff L) |
For those lucky
enough to fly in the afternoon there was some good soaring to be had and
at one stage all four gliders that were out were soaring at the same
time.
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| Sheltering form an isolated shower (Mark L) |
Ray B had the longest flight of over 30min and 20 flights total in the shortened day- let's hope Thursday is as good as it was today. - JSt
