With only a few members at the club early Ron Johns (DI) soon had the launch point set up in the NE corner, and proceeded with some challenging cable breaks in the very light cross wind, good experience for all!
By lunch time the first signs of lift started to appear as Mike Sloggett took over from Ron, with this a few private syndicates brought their gliders to the launch point and soaring began!
Pete (230) Martin ( KMV ) and Simon (SM ) headed off to the East with Pete turning Crewkerne followed by Tiverton (Club 100K ), Martin also turning Crewkerne then enjoying the sea breeze before returning to North Hill, Simon continued to Dorchester and returned for 120kms (ish).
By lunch time the first signs of lift started to appear as Mike Sloggett took over from Ron, with this a few private syndicates brought their gliders to the launch point and soaring began!
Pete (230) Martin ( KMV ) and Simon (SM ) headed off to the East with Pete turning Crewkerne followed by Tiverton (Club 100K ), Martin also turning Crewkerne then enjoying the sea breeze before returning to North Hill, Simon continued to Dorchester and returned for 120kms (ish).
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| Nice looking clouds at Dorchester (Simon Minson) |
Congratulations to Ellie for adding another 5 solos in the Junior. Mark Wallis and Rick Andrews enjoyed ~1½ hours each in the Juniors. Robin W-F in JPT had the longest flight of nearly 3 hours. There were a total of 28 winch launches and 7 aerotows. We welcomed Manos and Neil who had soaring trial lessons.
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| Opportunity for a photoshoot - Best of British (John Burrow) |
Thanks to Guy for driving the Pawnee today, and all who helped out on the field! - Simon Minson
ICL at Halesland - Day 2
The day started cool with little signs of sun and RASP's optimistic outlook for an 11:00am start was not going to happen. Team North Hill was depleted to just Wyn Davies LS7 Intermediate, Task reduced to Halesland, Trowbridge, Lyneham,Devizes, Halesland 132km.
Michael Fawcett came along to crew and was rewarded with no field landings to deal with plus a flight in the Rotax Falke with Ian Mitchell.
We all waited patiently for signs that the improvement would come, and there were mermerings at 1pm that the task would be scrubbed if there was no improvement by 1.30,
The improvement came - the tasks were reduced and the grid quickly launched. With us all setting off fairly close together it was fun to be flying with 2 or 3 other gliders to help find the best lift. By the end of the task there were very strong energy lines which made for a reasonably brisk flight, with a few of us landing straight in from the final glide. - Wyn Davies
Preliminary Scores are:
Novice:
MGC - 1 point
Wyvern - 1 point
Intermediate:
MGC 67.1kph - 6 points
Wyvern 66.2kph - 5 points
DSGC 62.8kph - 4 points
DGS 174km - 3 points
BWND 161km - 2 points
Pundit:
BWND 70.4kph - 6 points
Wyvern 59.7kph - 5 points
Overall position after Round 1 (Halesland)
1st Wyvern 26 points
2nd BWND 18 points
3rd DSGC 17 points
4th MGC 16 points
5th DGS 6 points
Well done all.
ICL at Halesland - Day 2
The day started cool with little signs of sun and RASP's optimistic outlook for an 11:00am start was not going to happen. Team North Hill was depleted to just Wyn Davies LS7 Intermediate, Task reduced to Halesland, Trowbridge, Lyneham,Devizes, Halesland 132km.
Michael Fawcett came along to crew and was rewarded with no field landings to deal with plus a flight in the Rotax Falke with Ian Mitchell.
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| (Reduced) team photo (Matt Williamson) |
We all waited patiently for signs that the improvement would come, and there were mermerings at 1pm that the task would be scrubbed if there was no improvement by 1.30,
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| A quarry is always worth a try for a thermal (Wyn Davies) |
The improvement came - the tasks were reduced and the grid quickly launched. With us all setting off fairly close together it was fun to be flying with 2 or 3 other gliders to help find the best lift. By the end of the task there were very strong energy lines which made for a reasonably brisk flight, with a few of us landing straight in from the final glide. - Wyn Davies
Preliminary Scores are:
Novice:
MGC - 1 point
Wyvern - 1 point
Intermediate:
MGC 67.1kph - 6 points
Wyvern 66.2kph - 5 points
DSGC 62.8kph - 4 points
DGS 174km - 3 points
BWND 161km - 2 points
Pundit:
BWND 70.4kph - 6 points
Wyvern 59.7kph - 5 points
Overall position after Round 1 (Halesland)
1st Wyvern 26 points
2nd BWND 18 points
3rd DSGC 17 points
4th MGC 16 points
5th DGS 6 points
Well done all.
