Wednesday started with a huge turnout of members largely due to the Task Week, the field was set up for a north westerly with the landings on the recently improved section of the field, this sped up the launch rate quite a bit.
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| Pleasant morning (Mark Layton) |
The first launch was about 11am due to the low cloud and there was thermic activity to cloudbase and some useful soaring to be had. Ron scrubbed the task for the day at 2:00pm and some of the members just soared locally.
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| Blue Eagle landing (Sally Hender) |
After lunch the cloud base lifted to about 2,500ft and there was plenty of good lift to be had and many flights were about an hour with Pete Startup having the longest flight as usual having completed the Club 100 with a rather sticky bit at Crewkerne, the blue Eagle had some good soaring flights with John Pursey including checking out Ben Watkins who soloed the Eagle.
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| John Pursey with Stirling Melhuish (Mark Layton) |
Lasham member Andy Holmes was checked out by Stu in Perkoz and then took Dan Hender followed by Charlie Broderick for some short cross-country coaching.
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| Peter Smith driving the Junior instead of the tractor (Mark Layton) |
Peter Smith flew the Junior for a short flight, he could only spare a few minutes away from field leveling the flying continued to about 6:00pm (in what might prove the best day of the week.) - John Street.
