A brilliant day for everyone.
We all rose early with the forecast predicting a strong westerly throughout the day and the lure of ridge running had people looking forward to some fun low-level flying.
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| Rob Hender and Ruth Comer dreaming about ridge running (Mark Courtney) |
We launched all day on the short west run and this was a new experience for all the Juniors. Charlie took the first flight in the DG505, however the ridge was much more weak and patchy than expected, due to a lot of wave suppression. However Charlie and Simon scratched along the ridge and did a few beat ups of the ridge before riding the rotor into a lovely wave bar which carried them high above the site.
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| Wave bars (Mark Courtney) |
However, they had to descend and then Ross, Daniel and I (Josh) all experienced the lovely conditions. Many of the other Midlands Gliding club members rigged their own private gliders and all had long duration flights with people recording heights of over 6000ft above the site in their flights.
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| Long Mynd sunset (Mark Courtney) |
Flying went long into the evening with everyone getting their share of the soaring. By far my best experience of what the Long Mynd has to offer. - Josh Funnell
