Club flying
Course report
Quite a blustery start to Wednesday with a very strong north westerly wind which was forecast to last most of the day, with a small group of the Wednesday regulars keen to try their hand at the strong North-Westerly.
The Wednesday club were using the Perkoz as the K21s were being used for the September course, John Sillett and John Street were instructing.
The Wednesday club were using the Perkoz as the K21s were being used for the September course, John Sillett and John Street were instructing.
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| Nice cloud streets (John Street) |
The lift was very strong and rough but very rewarding if you were lucky enough to reach the many cloud streets, cloudbase was 3,500ft, Nick Harrison completed his yellow card checks and all who flew had good soaring flights in the character building conditions. John Strèet
Course report
The course motto for today is "up up and away". We all managed longer flights and made good use of this time for ridge soaring and where height permitted stall demonstrations and practice. Team Peter holds the records for todays distance to the Cullompton turn point, the height at 3000ft + and the longest time at 45 minutes. Of course there is no pressure on Team Mike to better these before the end of the week!
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| Nice clouds (Mike Sloggett) |
As with the first two days the intermittent rain has been an issue but that is part and parcel of gliding. The time was not wasted as we were able to complete a number of the theoretical briefings.
A big thank you to the support team who continue to provide a first class service this week and also to the other members on site today who assisted us by retrieving and launching our gliders. - Ashley Thomas (first time blogger)
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| Committee Meeting in the Clubhouse (Lisa Humphries) |
Club Evening report
Tonight started with showers and hope of flying, we were lucky and managed to fly 6 members once before it got dark.
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| Jacob Brook with Lisa into the setting sun (Lisa Humphries) |
A skeleton crew but very effective, thanks to everyone for a pleasant evening. We will run another evening next week weather permitting of course. - Lisa Humphries
