With more than 70mm of rain over the last 7 days, the prospect of a dry day brought 'everyone' out, but it was a slow start with the wet ground making it a reduced price aerotow-only day. It took most of the morning before the canopies cleared and the humidity reduced. There was 1 launch before 12:00 but we were still plagued with the intermittent small bands of lowish orographic cloud forming on the west ridge, so it was an early lunch before getting going in ernest.
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| Aerotow queue (David Clements) |
3 two-seaters and the 2 Juniors were in action and Martin Woolner KMV also rigged and took a launch.
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| Aston Key with an aerotow recency flight with John Sillett (David Clements) |
Aerotow training and some spin practice took place before the temperature started dropping and the orographic cloud returned, which called an early close 11 launches in total. Sorry to those who didn't fly today. Thanks to guest Instructors John Sillett and Peter Field for helping out on a Thursday. - J&P
