Another sunny start to the day with a promise of some soaring, the kit was walked up to the N/W corner along with the tug with Peter Field as tuggie for the day.
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| Getting ready with a promising sky (John Street) |
The temperature was cooler than the last few days and it was more comfortable on the ground, the first few launches had difficulty contacting the lift partly due to the lack of wind and low launch height.
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| Tim Petty in his new toy (John Street) |
Pete Startup 230, Dave Clements CVV and Wyn Davies W7 rigged their gliders and managed to stay up, the soaring then became good with thermals reaching 4,000ft. Pete and Wyn headed off to the east.....
"We set off earlyish from a winch launch and found good run to SHB and return to CLS. The way back to MBU was fine until I could see that the turn point was behind the sea air. At one time I was flying with sea air "tendrils" on either side of me - which was a first. That was short lived, as I then had to rush inland and scrabble about YEO reservoir , with 230 , and eventually was shown a great thermal by Pete in 230, over Yeovil. Once back at height the return to NH was straight forward." W7
"We set off earlyish from a winch launch and found good run to SHB and return to CLS. The way back to MBU was fine until I could see that the turn point was behind the sea air. At one time I was flying with sea air "tendrils" on either side of me - which was a first. That was short lived, as I then had to rush inland and scrabble about YEO reservoir , with 230 , and eventually was shown a great thermal by Pete in 230, over Yeovil. Once back at height the return to NH was straight forward." W7
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| Sea air tendrils (Wyn Davies) |
Around 12:00 we changed ends as the wind had backed to a light Westerly. Tim Petty converted to Pilatus B4.
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| The aerotow launch point (John Street) |
The three Trial Lessons Visitors enjoyed their flights and there were also two friends and family flights alongside training, in the afternoon the sky overdeveloped and put paid to the soaring.- John Street.
