There was a strong and unusually gusty north westerly wind with strong thermals from the first launch, but disappointing low cloudbase.
Aston Key and John Borland led the way in the Juniors with long flights, but the conditions particularly on approach became increasing boisterous, and limited to yellow card.
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| Looks better to the north east (Jill Harmer) |
There was a long line of heavy showers to the west of the motorway nearly all day, whilst the airfield stayed predominantly dry and sunny with the ridge working quite well at times.
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| Storms to the west (Jill Harmer) |
Pete Startup in 230 persevered for 2 hours locally, Wyn flew W7 and there was a rare outing for DG1 with Tom Sides.
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| Tom with DG1 (Jill Harmer) |
Woolly was kept busy with Roly's BI revalidation, and then some back seat flying with Aston Key in the DG505.
Thanks to Robert Lee and Mike Fairclough for standing in tugging. -J&P
