Another sunny Wednesday, another long flying list, a fairly brisk south-south-westerly wind with expectations of some good ridge soaring.
Just like last Wednesday, just as we were about launch some low cloud delayed the first launch, but after a short delay we started to fly as soon as some big-enough gaps appeared in the cloud cover, unfortunately the ridge was not working as well as we would have liked.
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| John Sillett checks out Sir Chris (John Street) |
John Sillett checked out Chris Coville after his exile in the Caribbean, we had three two-seaters on the go and the Junior was being well used but the ridge was only providing slightly extended circuits.
In the afternoon a wave system set up and provided much longer flights, Dave Clements had the longest flight of the day with 18 minutes.
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| Pete Warren and Tim Petty in the Perkoz (John Street) |
Unfortunately after a couple of cable breaks and an inspection of the righthand cable it was decided to put a new length of cable on as the existing rope was far too worn for it to be spliced. So we operated for a while with only one cable run while the team started to replace the defective cable. Thanks to Tim Petty (expert splicer) and Jeff Taberham for their hard work with the new cable.
Because of the delay with the cables and the misting canopies we stopped flying about 4:30pm, we managed 25 flights in total. - John Street.
