Another rather mixed forecast with a cloudy start breaking through the afternoon, and it turned out slightly better with the breaks starting to appear at lunchtime, although the wind was still across the launch run meaning lowish launches.
The ridge didn't want to play ball at all with too much northerly component, however there were some thermals by the afternoon Robert Lee in the Junior had the longest flight of 51 mins closely followed by Aston Key with 48 mins.
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| Curved edge to the cloud bank but not lining up either along or across the wind (Jill Harmer) |
We had two trial lesson flights, one being Jonathan Erskine a returning Exeter University gliding club member who last flew solo at Dunkeswell in 1964.
As the clouds were breaking, there were some strange looking formations and thermals and wispies in unusual places, with various theories of out of phase wave and wind shadows.
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| Aston waiting to launch to try to beat Robert's longest flight (Jill Harmer) |
Thanks to guest Instructor John Sillett for helping out with the flying list. 54 flights in total - J & P
