The typical North Hill low cloud greeted us this morning due to a slow moving front from the previous night. Clearly most members had seen this and decided not to turn up. By 9:30 only a handful of members were present and the flying list had 4 people hoping to fly. With the weather forecast to set in some members enjoyed an early lunch, whilst others entertained themselves with some ridge soaring, aerotowing and night flying in the simulator.
By mid-day a few members had given up waiting which reduced us to around 6 left. Finally, at around 2pm the cloud started dispersing and a decision to get the kit out was made. By the time we were ready to launch cloud base had risen to 1500ft, clearly circuit practice and check flights seemed the wise choice.
As the day progressed and the weather improving some solo flights were carried out thanks to the super-efficient ground team, in some cases swapping between jobs to help get gliders launched. New member Simon Collier, previously solo at Dartmoor gliding club managed to convert and solo in the Junior and got some good flights. By about 3:30pm the weather was good enough for some mile-high trial flights to be flown, with one visitor flying for over 50 mins, thoroughly enjoying themselves in the process.
As the evening approached lift started to fade off and kit was packed up early at around 5:45pm. A big thank you to all who helped out on the ground, without whom, we wouldn’t have been able to fly.
By mid-day a few members had given up waiting which reduced us to around 6 left. Finally, at around 2pm the cloud started dispersing and a decision to get the kit out was made. By the time we were ready to launch cloud base had risen to 1500ft, clearly circuit practice and check flights seemed the wise choice.
As the day progressed and the weather improving some solo flights were carried out thanks to the super-efficient ground team, in some cases swapping between jobs to help get gliders launched. New member Simon Collier, previously solo at Dartmoor gliding club managed to convert and solo in the Junior and got some good flights. By about 3:30pm the weather was good enough for some mile-high trial flights to be flown, with one visitor flying for over 50 mins, thoroughly enjoying themselves in the process.
As the evening approached lift started to fade off and kit was packed up early at around 5:45pm. A big thank you to all who helped out on the ground, without whom, we wouldn’t have been able to fly.
- Will Stainer & Lukasz Kieruczenko
News from Long Mynd expedition
News from Long Mynd expedition
The North Hill flyers were up early and had the DG505 rigged before
breakfast and briefing. Due to the light northerly wind there was not
much enthusiasm to fly. David Cowley and George Vojtisek walked to the launch point
and had two check flights each in the club Twin Astir to get to know the
site. Very different approach and landing to North Hill!
Later in the afternoon models were rigged and tested. Whilst waiting for flying to finish the NH guys and some of the members fixed the wind direction vane which had stuck.
Suddenly the wind picked up and changed direction to Westerly and models were flown till dinner time.
It has been great to have such a warm welcome from the Long Mynd club members. - GV
Later in the afternoon models were rigged and tested. Whilst waiting for flying to finish the NH guys and some of the members fixed the wind direction vane which had stuck.
Suddenly the wind picked up and changed direction to Westerly and models were flown till dinner time.
It has been great to have such a warm welcome from the Long Mynd club members. - GV
