A fair crowd turned up to be greeted by a brisk westerly wind and lurking low cloud, expecting to aerotow but inspection of the field bought the good news that winching was possible and the field set up accordingly.
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| Launch Control (Library pic Mike Sloggett) |
The duty instructors carried out a check flight, tasted the ridge and concluded that flying was possible and worthwhile. - And so it was.
Initially the cloud base was limiting launches to about a thousand feet but that improved to as much as 1700 feet, the ridge worked according to ones skill level and the club aircraft averaged 18 minutes a flight. Two privateers Pete Startup 230 and Eric Alston G29 had long flights - two to three hours - setting the target for the rest of us, Everybody managed two launches and some managed lunch as well.
A quite satisfactory day - 24 winch launches in all. - Glenn Turpin
