There were two potential weather forecasts for Thursday - the sunny one and the increasing cloudy one, It was sunny to start, then some clouds started popping, it thought about spreading out, but decided to go sunny again, but the wind did change direction as expected during the afternoon.
With the Course and Club flying running alongside, most flights during the morning in the light North easterly were fairly short unless you were lucky enough to get under an early cloud to 1200ft. As the day wore on it did get better and better, with more local soaring.
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| Changed ends ready to go - windsock? (Jill Harmer) |
The highlight of the day was right at the end when Ellie had another solo in K21 and found good lift gaining her first hour flight for cross-country endorsement.
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| Ellie ready with her Raybans (Neil Carter) |
Malcolm Vest was up in the Junior at the same time and took the opportunity to get his 2 hour flight for cross-country endorsement keeping us all waiting at the hangar! - Well done to both.
Course flying
All the course members progressed well with some enjoying soaring flights. James and Dave took an extra motor glider flight with Peter Field, and Gordon filling his boots with circuits and soaring flights in the Junior. In the evening the course celebrated the great flying weather with curry at the Viceroy. - J&P
