Sunday 31st July

With Sunday being the better forecast of the weekend, an even larger group was to be seen at North Hill today with the launch point set up and waiting for gliders by 8:30! Both flying  lists were long but good progress was made with training flights. 

Congratulations to Paul Kane for converting to H5 SF27 'Sophie'. 

 

SF27 Sophie (Paul Kane)

The cross-country gang planned a 168Km task  Cadbury Cross, Crewkerne, Knowstone, which Pete Startup in 230 completed. However most fell back to the Club 100, after the day proved not to be as simple as it looked with wave influence and rapid cloud cycling making progress slow and hard with the increasing westerly wind. 

Awesome visibility along the Jurassic Coast

However there were many soaring flights of over an hour at the club  (and six more than 3 hours) and even when the kit was packed away, Stuart in LS3 'KMV' (a bargain at £15,000) was still soaring -  landing eventually at 18:30. JB had the longest flight of nearly 4 hours. With 64 winch launches and 12 aerotows it was a busy day, so thanks to everyone for mucking in. - Pete Bennett

JB cruising to Wellington