Another gorgeous North Hill morning, with wall-to-wall blue skies and warm sunshine and no wind to speak of, but what was this from the guys setting up the launch point? - it's a bit windy at the other end! Once again the 'North Hill micro-climate' was causing a challenge. Disappointingly a blue/yellow flag fluttered most of the day with large amounts of turbulent conditions and heavy sink at times.
2-seat training continued with extra experience being gained by all, and Aston Key ( the only Blue card pilot present ) got the longest flight in the Junior off the winch of 21 minutes finding a usable thermal off the point, but having headed back up wind found 6 down everywhere. There was a call from one of the aerotows about some wave, but difficult to use in the blue. - J&P
And in the evening.......
A trial lesson evening for
the Air Cadets tonight went very well despite the almost blue
conditions. There were 10 to fly and after an inital flight with James
we warned them that they might not get value for money as the flights
would be short and unlikely
they would get to have a go at the controls. The wind was South
Easterly and quite turbulent at times but we achieved flights with
everyone and they all went away very happy. James and Stirling had the
last flight of the day with a little bit of planned turbulence
upside down and hangar landing.
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| James & Stirling for hangar flight (Lisa Humphries) |
On the way home the sunset was just too good not to stop for a picture.
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| Sunset in Devon (Lisa Humphries) |
All in all a lovely
evening, thanks to James Flory, James Hood, Stirling Melhuish, Aston Key, James Smart,
George Sanderson, Hans Jenssen and Tim Petty.
Lets hope we have more of this in the coming months. - Lisa Humphries
