Today's fantastic dark moody dramatic sky was ideal for a black and white landscape photographer but less so for glider pilots.
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| Moody sky (Mark Courtney) |
But after weeks of blue skies you can't have everything I suppose. The CFI's enthusiasm to get everything ready despite the low cloud first thing was met with slightly less excitement from everyone else - but out it all came. The full clubhouse for the briefing quickly dispersed to do various jobs around the club waiting for the cloudbase to rise high enough to attempt a launch.
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| Frequent rain showers during the morning ( Mark Layton) |
The first few launches were short due to the conditions and the frequent rain showers that passed through until after lunch. As the afternoon went on and full height launches were achievable, the flight times increased allowing the training to continue but were limited to two flights each to enable everyone to get airborne including a couple of trial lessons.
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| Launching the Perkoz (Mark Layton) |
The aforementioned dark moody clouds were never far away and threatened to spoil the day but thankfully they didn't and we all managed to achieve something whether it was training flights, currency checks or just flying for fun before we packed up a happy bunch! - Mark Layton
