A lot of high cover today and virtually no wind with the DG505 needing the best that Skylaunch can give, but soaring started late morning. Various check flights and training took place and several private owners came out, cloudbase went reasonably high.
Rob converts to Junior (Graham Barden)
Congratulations go to Rob Hender who spent all morning getting familiar with the Junior flight manual and seating position, then Pete suggested that he gets a nice flight in K21, and then after a further briefing from Pete, he converted to the Junior for another soaring flight, - more than doubled his solo hours - well done.
Busy launch point as soaring starts (David Clements)
Pete Startup 230 ventured out over Exeter to see if RASP was correct, but found too much high cover and reverted to Club 100 "Very good but very localised soaring at North Hill today. Unsoarable to the West due to heavy high cover and sea air just about everywhere else so original task went out the window. Fallback Club 100, just crept around Crewkerne before the sea air got that too, with the assistance of a couple of convergences." Pete Startup.
K21 landing (David Clements)
Meanwhile Jeff Taberham in 380, Chris Woodward in HKB, Ruth Comer in B19 and John Borland in FAJ were all adding to their soaring hours with some very pleasant local soaring. Thanks all 27 winch launches and 6 aerotows- J&P
