The forecast was for a flyable day, but very cold and windy. But not as windy as yesterday (Wednesday) and that’s what we got. A small group of hardy Thursday regulars turned up. Air temperature 0degC but -7degC with wind chill. The good news was the field, previously too soft, was now rock hard (Frozen).
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| Second Briefing (Mark Courtney) |
The wind was ENE 15kts and not too gusty (although unfortunately too much for the Trial flight visitors). The only issue was some annoying patchy low cloud being blown along on the wind. The launch point was set up at the west end and one K21, DG505, and a Junior were DI’d and walked to the west end. The patchy low cloud caused some problems on the first two launches so a halt was called as the cloud thickened and all retired to the Clubhouse for an early lunch (thanks Julie).
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| The Brentor wave bar (Glenn Turpin) |
The sky started to clear at midday and flying resumed just before 13:00. Five / six minute circuits were the order of the day until Aston in the Junior discovered a weak wave just NE of the field (43 minutes) followed by Ron Johns and Glyn Bellerby in a K21 (31minutes).
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| Weak wave (Mark Courtney) |
Both returned as the lift disappeared - never to be seen again - as we reverted mainly to sink and short circuits. Three hangar landings completed the day and all flew who wanted to and hadn’t frozen. 12 flights in all and all the kit safely put to bed. - John Borland
