Nothing better for a glider pilot than waking up to a sunny day with great weather forecasts. The morning briefing also reinforced that, though adding that more than 25 gliders would be in the local airspace at the same time.
The sun on JZK (Stu Procter)
Flying on the Bishop hill was not for the faint of heart. The lift was steady, but you had to constantly be watching for other gliders. Gradually, gliders moved out from the hill, but the surprise was when both thermals and wave developed to augment the ridge lift.
Wave over Loch Leven (Simon Minson)
We'll start with the big winners of the day: Andy Williams (FUN) achieved his gold height,
Congratulations to Andy Williams Gold Height
while Simon Minson (SM), Andy Davey, (JB), Guy Adams (CEC) and Ron Johns/Chris Wool (711) all had impressive wave flights. Pete Startup (230), Stu Procter, James and Emma Flory (JZK), Mark Wallis and I all had fun flying the Portmoak ridge and the thermals which took us even higher. - Tom Sides
