As the course members arrived for Wednesday they were greeted by the familiar layer of low cloud. However, not deterred the course members proceeded to get all six gliders out of the hangar for the first time in a little while. Once the Wednesday crew arrived (eventually) the launchpoint was setup in the northwest corner. With low cloud still hanging around the instructors took great joy in ensuring that none of the first five students reached the top of the launch. Once the instructors got bored of the launch failures and decided to venture to the top of the launch they decided that there wasn't much fun to be had up high and so it was just circuits for the rest of the day with all course members making excellent progress (with some getting very near solo standard). - Connor Williams
It's a course week and as usual few members turn up despite RASP being pretty optimistic. Unusually though the course did not require the Juniors so the three club members on the single seater list were well catered for.
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| Well done Chris - for your longest flight so far of 3.5hrs |
A cloudy start with bases 800ft ish, were enough for the Course to start promptly with cable break training, but by 11:00 bases had risen sufficiently (abt 1200ft) for the Juniors (gliders that is).
From then on some thermal activity could be found although mostly weak and narrow, in a WNWly (15-18kt at 2000ft).
Not a good day for spectacular soaring, but several flights of 30mins or more were made, and 4 private gliders were out as well with flights of an hour or more., I even had visions of a 5 hour flight, which floundered after about 3 1/2 hr, when I took a wrong turn and lost that elusive lift. Another day perhaps. A total of 55 winch launches and 3 aerotows - Chris Warnes
