Another sweltering blue sky day and with a rather fresh easterly breeze, but there was a very strong inversion at 1500ft which seemed to be enhancing the sink. All morning the circuits from the winch launch were in low single figures.
The pundits towed out, but dumped their gliders at the launch point for more tea and inspiration and inspection of Spot the Gliders showed that at least today, we weren't alone across the country!
After lunch, the inversion started climbing rapidly to a maximum of 4500ft above North Hill, and fast cycling small cumulus clouds appeared.
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| Small cumulus appearing (Jill Harmer) |
The Pundits all got away mostly from aerotows, and if you were lucky - so did those from the winch, - if they managed to avoid the 8 and 10 knot sink in the circuit.
John Borland was keen to check the igc file for his hangar flight in the Junior, but unfortunately missed out on Silver height by 200ft. Congratulations to Lukasz Kieruczenko for passing his Bronze exam.
Ron and Wooly in 711, Pete in 230 and Wyn in W7 completed Cerne Abbas - Sherborne 124km and Phil and Malcolm in DD3 Taunton - Yeovil for 99km.
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| Another nice sunset (Mike Sloggett) |
Alongside the Club members flights, we also flew 3 Trial lesson visitors and 2 Family and friends - 33 Winch launches and 8 aerotows in total. - J&P
