The day started sunny, but very breezy with a northnorthwesterly crosswind to make things more interesting. After the 9:30 briefing we set up by the glider trailers to try and reduce the crosswind effect a little.
As seems to be the norm these days, there were few around but just enough to start operating. Glenn Turpin and Andy Pincombe our trusty Instructors for the day.
Early there was little thermic activity, but this very soon improved and some respectable times were clocked with some average lift being 5kt and greater.
Perkoz (Library picture)
We were forced to stop for lunch, due to numbers, but this was kept short, and we were soon back in the air. The cloud which had pin-pointed the thermals for us gradually died away, but the lift continued to be good for the rest of the day.
Around mid-afternoon a genuine cable break occurred which gave us a short rest, but otherwise the day finally closed at about 18:00, after the last glider was called down. - Chris Warnes
