All the kit was ready to fly by 10:00am, but the cloud base was considered too low so there was a slight delay to the start of flying. We had both K21s and a Junior taken to the launchpoint in readiness for the first launch. The weather was quite cold for July and although quite a lot of members turned up in shorts they soon changed into warmer clothes even two winter woolly hats were worn, by Glenn Turpin and John Street.
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| A bit grey to start (John Street) |
The wind was northwesterly and about 8-10kts so there was a fair chance of a bit of ridge flying with the occasional boost from a thermal, and this proved to be the case for most of the day. With the high launches, many of the flights were over 30min, John Sillett in CVV and Chris Warnes in Junior managed nearly 1hr. The only private glider to be flown was the B4 which John, Tim Petty and David Clements made good use of.
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| Peter Smith briefing Mike Meatyard (John Street) |
Peter Smith flew both pre-booked training flights Mike Meatyard and Charlie Broderick in HCX.
Thanks to Rob Hender who manned the winch all day and provided all who flew good high launches, Sandy Harrup who looked after the LPV all day and Tim Petty who spent a lot of the day time fitting a new comms box for the S/W launch point. We achieved 27 launches today many of them soaring flights - John Street.
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| View from the winch glider stack (Rob Hender) |
Thanks to Rob Hender who manned the winch all day and provided all who flew good high launches, Sandy Harrup who looked after the LPV all day and Tim Petty who spent a lot of the day time fitting a new comms box for the S/W launch point. We achieved 27 launches today many of them soaring flights - John Street.
