It was a lovely bright start with the light wind just to the west of north, and all the kit and several private owners were ready to go with the first launch just before 10:00am.
But after just 7 launches, the wind had picked up and become a quartering tailwind and had made both launches and landings difficult, so there was a swift change of ends before continuing.
We managed another 10 winches and aerotows into good soarable streets before the windsock swung round yet again. So there was a call for a quick lunch to see what would happen in the next half-hour. In the event, the wind had now stabilised back to the North west and the upper frontal cloud had filled in all the gaps. So after another rapid change of ends we continued launching with everyone feeling the increasingly cold wind. Amazingly we managed a total of 35 launches with all the changes, and several quite reasonable local soaring flights.- J&P
