Today again saw a low
turnout for the first Wednesday in the New Year, but the determination
of the few members soon had everything out and checked in record time,
only to find, although flyable a very fine drizzle and a 1,000ft
cloudbase, so we decided to wait for the better weather that was forecast.
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| Busy with the DI's (John Street) |
After
a very early lunch the weather was much improved with breaks in the
cloud, a 1,500ft cloudbase and the drizzle had stopped. We had two visitors - a glider pilot from Australia and a Trial lesson, JB and Pete Warren looked after them.
There
was little in the way of lift for most of the afternoon but later weak
wave appeared and Chris Warnes managed 16 minutes only returning because of
failing daylight. Pete Startup had the longest flight just pipping Chris
by one minute but as Chris maintained - he only came down because he
wanted to help put the kit away and it was getting dusk.
We
had a good finish to 2016 last Wednesday and good start to 2017, l
would like to wish all Wednesday blog readers a happy new year I also
extend this all members of DSGC. - John Street
