On arriving at North Hill,
the cloud was on the deck and a fine drizzle had just started not a good
start to the day with a lot of anxious members looking out of the Clubhouse windows at the weather.
The
forecast suggested that things might get better later in the day, to
stop people drifting away a decision was made to get the field set up so
as to be ready when and if the weather cleared, this decision was
greeted with some initial scepticism but with a little gentle persuasion
we managed to make a start.
By the time the field was set up it was flyable, Roly did a met flight and radioed down to inform us of a 1,100ft cloudbase. There
was total cloud cover but with a fairly brisk north westerly wind, we were able to
prolong most flights and the the weather was improving all the time.
Nigel
Everett was flying solo again in his glider after a short break from
solo flying and the K6 HEB was flown by various pilots.
Fran Knowles
is back at the club again after her visit to Germany and Austria and
after several launch failure exercises that she seemed to relish flew
the K21 solo for the longest flight of the day. - John Street.
