The day started extremely hot as usual for this week. We had many flights including a 205km flight from North Hill to Calne from an aerotow with Pete Startup. Lift was present and many flights were up for more than 10 minutes at a time.
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| North Hill (Mike Sloggett) |
The helpers as usual were extremely helpful with the cables being delivered quickly and many flights from the hardworking Instructors who continued flogging with the less experienced throughout the entire boiling day. Well done to Geoff Lawrence who breezed through his Bronze exam papers today.
Sea breeze has gone through (David Clements)
All course members were invited to fish and chips at the end as a reward for the good 4 days of work they done in the extreme heat. - Harry Rigby -first-time blogger
Cross-country - How did Pete do it?
"Really enjoyed this flight - obviously not for the distance or speed but for the planning. Devon has been heaven for the beach-based body-basters this week, but with clear blue skies and daily sea air incursions, soaring has been a bit thin on the ground. Same old story today, convection started, but today some Cu appeared then promptly started to move North as the sea breeze moved in so an aerotow to a remote start 13km away was the order of the day(2nd time this week). The first 60 km across the Somerset Levels were a bit soft but once North of the Mendips it improved a lot(thanks to MC for finding us a good climb near Radstock). Then back to Devon. As expected and again planned for, the sea air had moved way North to between Taunton and Glastonbury but a good climb at the last cloud gave me a comfortable margin for the 30km glide home into an increasing Southerly sea breeze." -230
