Friday 16th
The early travellers Pete 230 and Ron and Woolly 711 were greeted with a classic Portmoak day with ridge soaring on Benarty hill until the thermals arrived, then thermals to get into the wave with the wave going up to 14,000ft. Trips out to Loch Earn and Loch Tay ensued. The cold was a bit of a shock after the Southern Summer!
Looking down the Tay towards Dundee home of marmalade (Pete Startup)
Saturday 17th
Joined today by Andrew FMS and Andy FUN, we had a repeat of the ridge(Bishop hill today), thermal, wave but only to 8500ft and with much more cloud around which closed in at one point requiring a discretionary descent by 230 and FMS but it opened up again for some local area soaring as far as Methven.
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Above the clouds 8000ft in FMS (Andrew Logan)
Sunday 18th
Joined today by Simon SM and Guy who was flying in 711. Wind had fallen light, only 5kts on the surface. Cheap Eurofox aerotows round to the North side of West Lomond hill meant we could at least stay airborne on very weak ridge and wave, 230 managed to eke out 6000ft. Thermals then started which killed the weak wave in 10 minutes flat but we all enjoyed some local area thermal soaring all afternoon.
SM is ready ( Simon Minson)
Tuesday 20th
The wind started off so light and SW today that we thought it was going to be a non starter but the usual expedition impatience kicked in and SM took a launch on to the Bishop and stayed airborne so that set off a launch frenzy and everybody enjoyed an afternoon of challenging weak ridge and thermal soaring.
SM enjoying the ridge (Simon Minson)
A new expedition first was Woolly and Guy flying 711 together - both were grinning after landing. - Pete Startup
