RASP indicated a good day, cloudy to start and brighter in the afternoon. That is exactly what transpired. The surprisingly cold start to the day was a bit of a shock, but the regular members knew better and had 'emergency' spare warm clothes at hand for yet another day at the west end.
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| The sun needs to heat the ground (Mark Layton) |
In an already overdeveloped sky there was lift to be had from the offset with a few flights approaching an hour and had to be called down. This brought a flurry of private gliders into the throng. Finding thermals were a bit of a hit and miss affair with some luckier than others and noone ventured too far from North Hill apart from Pete Startup in 230 who headed over to Tiverton.
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| Launching at the west end again (Mark Layton) |
After a quick lunch break, including a two minute silence for the 80th VE anniversary, the sky brightened up as forecast with a welcome rise in ambient air temperature. Most enjoyed soaring flights of some kind, with others doing back-seat flying training for mutual flying plus the normal array of cable failure checks sending gliders to different area's of the airfield.
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| Front of the queue (Mark Layton) |
Mike Sloggett along with Chris Wool worked through the flying list and thankfully managed to get everyone flown by 1700. CFI Mark was back on tug pilot duty flying the EuroFox and finding the seat as comfy as ever before his mini lay off.
A productive day all round with some fun added for good measure! - Mark Layton