The day started hot and blue with little prospect of any decent soaring, both K21s and a Junior were walked to the Northwest corner, the first two managed to stay up for about 20min each, this energised some private gliders to be towed up the field as well.
After the first two flights it was circuits only, with little wind and it was very hot, this dampened enthusiasm somewhat.
About midday some thermals appeared and gliders started staying up and having reasonable soaring flights, at one stage we had eight gliders airborne.
It become fairly easy to stay up and it became how long you could stick the searing heat. Pete Startup, Jeff Taberham, Eric Alston, Gordon Hutchinson Wyn Davies and the K6 Trio Dan, Charlie and Josh all flew their own gliders, Robert was Tuggie. It was nice to see Dave Clements back flying again.
A big thanks and well done to Tim Petty and his team for the painstaking and laboriously difficult work in finding the faults with LPV-Winch comms and fixing them. - John Street.
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| Social distancing (David Clements) |
About midday some thermals appeared and gliders started staying up and having reasonable soaring flights, at one stage we had eight gliders airborne.
It become fairly easy to stay up and it became how long you could stick the searing heat. Pete Startup, Jeff Taberham, Eric Alston, Gordon Hutchinson Wyn Davies and the K6 Trio Dan, Charlie and Josh all flew their own gliders, Robert was Tuggie. It was nice to see Dave Clements back flying again.
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| David Clements back flying (John Street) |
