There was a light wind with a hint of north meant the launch line was set up along the northern boundary.
The Cold front had left a bit of cloud behind, and some orographic nuisance cloud, but Ron Johns reported back that he thought it was a convergence. And so it was, and soaring was plentiful for most of the day with the higher cloud turning into cumuliform and streets setting up.
Pete Startup (who else) was offered a K21 whilst Instructors were having lunch and followed a street to Tiverton, Only to find it disappeared behind him, and a radio call started a frantic search to see if the K21 trailer might be serviceable after some maintenance. Fortunately, Pete picked up a thermal just after the motorway and managed to get back - a great low save!
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| Junior LRD (John Allan) |
New member John Allan from Dartmoor GS converted to the Junior and took the longest flight of 2 hours after being invited to stay up over lunch. Chris Wool flew the two Trial lesson visitors with Simon Jordy tugging. We also had two aircraft fly in from Mendip including Ron Perry surprising Andy Williams with his new acquisition - Super Emeraude.
Lovely February day - 25 winch launches, with pristine clear air, brought to an end with the difficulty of landing into the low sun, but the wind was light so downwind was good. Thanks to all (sorry to Mike who didn't get to fly). - J&P
