The bright sunny dawn soon degenerated into heavy low cloudbase cumulus clouds which spreadout and ruined the morning's soaring.
Having looked at the satellite picture, it seemed that Devon was stuck in the only bit of spreadout and up-country there were the gorgeous puffy cumulus that we had hoped for.
Just before lunch, (with all the private owners and Junior pilots moaning) the K21's found at least 1 thermal before plummeting back to terra firma, but this signalled a change and Ron Johns with Chris Mew in ASH25 led the escape to better conditions and completed O/R to Salisbury.
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| A busy screen from Spot the gliders showing many visitors to Devon struggling through the spreadout (Jill Harmer) |
Well done to Pete Startup in 230 for completing 312Km Salisbury, Okehampton through dogged determination.
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| Empty launchpoint at last (Jill Harmer) |
Late in the afternoon, the local conditions improved significantly for more gentle soaring until we packed up at 19:00pm.- J&P
