Careful watching of the forecast and the atmospheric soundings leading up to today gave several pieces of useful information. The wind would be straight from the east at 15+ knots at ground level and 30+ knots at flying heights and potentially gusty. Sound like typical wave conditions? Well no actually.
There was an inversion at about 2000 feet ( good ). Wind strength not really increasing above this (bad). The airflow was going to be very moist (bad).
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| Waiting in the rain |
Flying started with an exploratory flight in the K13 which promptly launched to 1800 feet. This was followed by the K7M with Ged and our One Day Course candidate Michael Welby. The aircraft did not really soar but were able to maintain height with the conditions trying to form wave. Several flights around 20 minutes were made until heavy and persistent rain arrived. This ended flying for the day.
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| Derigging at Neath |
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| Ged and Steve preparing the trailer |
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| Ready to go |
The BIG NEWS of the day was the arrival of the third and final “new” aircraft from Neath. This aircraft is a K7M bearing the registration G-DCLT. It is intended to use this aircraft to ensure that we can field 2 * 2 seaters on every flying day while having the facility to take 2 seaters off line for maintenance as required. CLT is now in the workshop ready for it’s survey. After this there will be a list of jobs to do before it can join the fleet. Please feel free to volunteer to help with this.
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| G-DCLT in the workshop. |
Many thanks to all those who have been involved in getting these aircraft to Brentor; Ged Nevisky, Mike Jardine and Steve Raine this time. Colin Boyd, Alan Carter and Sandra Buttery helped on previous occasions. I think we owe special thanks to Steve who has clock up over 1000 miles having been to collect all 3 aircraft.
Steve
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