Clear blue sky with lenticulars in evidence from first thing and a fresh easterly wind greeted the Thursday regulars. So the hangar was emptied and the gliders walked up the field.
We also had some visitors first thing, who wished to view a potential earthwork enclosure that had been spotted on lidar images of the airfield. With the low sun angle a low earthwork feature was just visble in front of the aircraft hangar (amongst the lumps and bumps of the airfield) and is characteristic of late prehistoric settlement enclosures found elsewhere across the area.
We also had some visitors first thing, who wished to view a potential earthwork enclosure that had been spotted on lidar images of the airfield. With the low sun angle a low earthwork feature was just visble in front of the aircraft hangar (amongst the lumps and bumps of the airfield) and is characteristic of late prehistoric settlement enclosures found elsewhere across the area.
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| Richard Sims and his team (Jill Harmer) |
Richard Sims from AC Archaeology and his team working on a Historic England project were pleased to have been allowed to do a 'ground-truth' field visit. (There are no plans to excavate!)
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| Beautifully backlit K21 (Mark Layton) |
A few aerotows headed off downwind to explore the wave, but only found zero and reduced sink which was a little disappointing.
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| Nicely banked turn (Mark Layton) |
It was a busy day with lots of members training and renewing their card ratings and the solo pilots keeping current in the Juniors.
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| Simulated launch failure (Mark Layton) |
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| Landing ahead (Mark Layton) |
Fortunately as the air was very dry, we were able to continue right through until sunset with no misting canopies. 45 launches in total with several of 11 and 12 minutes from good height winch launches.
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| Martin Woolner & Fran Knowles (Mark Courtney) |
Thanks to everyone for another pleasant winter's Thursday. - J&P
