A much larger turnout today with a reasonable forecast, thankfully the wind was southwesterly and not southeasterly, as some forecasts had suggested.
Mike
Fitz and John Street were first in the air with a 25min flight in weak
wave / southerly ridge, nearly all subsequent flights were soaring
flights.
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| Thermals starting (John Street) |
The soaring
was best between 12noon and 2:30pm with many long flights logged.
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| Parked up for lunch (John Street) |
Pete
Startup (who else) had the longest flight of over two hrs in his
Discus, Jeff T had the second longest with 90min and there were many more
flights of around one hour. Eric had a good flight in the Junior, wishing
he had rigged his own glider, at one point in the day we had all the
gliders soaring at the same time.
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| Good strong thermals (John Street) |
Peter Stoker joined us today- he was a Wednesday regular up until a few years ago, let's hope he re-joins us in the near future.
The lift was quite varied today, we had weak wave to start with, lift on the South ridge, good thermals to 2,500ft and cloud streets - not bad for late January. - John Street.
