The morning briefing, announced for 9am, was pushed back to 9:30am as three showers and 100 young people doesn’t quite add up, and allow for an early start! Due to these numbers, the briefing was held in the hangar by Rose (CFI) with full attendance, and a minutes silence for Oliver Summerell.
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| Junior Gliding remembering Oliver Summerell (UK Junior Gliding) |
It was then a bit of a race to the launch point! Dan was very grateful for having his own glider at this point, the two-seater list was three pages long!
Flying started at about 10:00, Dan getting his launch at 10:46, he started on the ridge, scratching to stay up, but managed to get some height using thermals.
JDP with a long lens (Rob Hender)
The ridge then turned off, which meant everything else came back to the airfield, except Dan, who luckily had the height in hand to push out to some known wave spots and caught some very low weak wave. He maintained his height for a total of 2 hours 40 mins, coming back only to avoid the crowds who would want to de-rig at the same time, when the forecast rain came in.
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| JDP returning before the rain (Rob Hender) |
Therefore, the glider was away and we were safely in the clubhouse enjoying coffee, by 3:30pm when this happened.
We headed off at 5pm to retire to the Pub, and drove past at least an hours worth of launches! There were 68 launches yesterday in four hours, and 118 launches today. - Sally Hender
