A reasonable flying list today
with a good weather forecast except for the early low cloud and poor
visibility, but this soon cleared with the visibility becoming excellent.
The
wind direction was forecast to be southeasterly but it turned out to be southwest much
to our relief. The launches seemed 100ft higher with the new dyneema but
late in the day the dyneema snagged on a damaged pulley wheel and we
finished the day operating on one drum.
We
were lucky with the weather because at lunchtime the low cloud returned
and the tug was put away but shortly after lunch it cleared again to
give us a beautiful afternoons flying.
Roly
managed to fly all three of the Trial lesson visitors, there was no
soaring to be had but the flying was very pleasant and all had a good
time, Stu Procter and Matt Wright were the tuggies today, thanks to Paul C for
standing in for John Sillett and we had a visit from David Bouchier from Brentor
who is thinking of joining us.
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| Eastern Beech tree (Jill Harmer) |
Sadly
we have lost two of the biggest branches on our East facing beech tree, a tree surgeon will give a verdict on the health of the tree. - John Street.
