RASP was looking promising until the tail of the warm front / sea air would limit soaring sometime in the afternoon. A large number of members had noticed this and were keen to remember what soaring was like at North Hill!
First launches didn't find any lift but the grass was still wet.... There were at least 15 private gliders being rigged / readied around the field. Andy Davey was the first to stay up in the Junior, and this led to instant growth of both the aerotow queue and the single seat winch line.
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| Busy launch queue (Jill Harmer) |
Streets set up over the field to the west and it looked good to the east as well, the launch queue emptied in time for a late lunch fortunately coinciding with the short spell of 8/8 cloud cover with the tail of the warm front.
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| Wyn took the sea breeze front up to Exmoor (Wyn Davies) |
The pundits Ron Johns with Sir Chris in 711, Pete Startup in 230 and Wyn Davies in W7 set off for Sherborne and Cerne Abbas worried about the of length of day, but disapponted later that the 124k task was underset.
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| Interesting sky at lunchtime (Mark Courtney) |
The clearance of the warm front (with the change of launch point) allowed the sea air in so it was just circuits for the rest of the day after the convergence had headed further north.
Thanks to Robert and Mark for tugging, a busy day for everyone. J&P
