Dartmoor Gliding News–Saturday 26th April 2014

British summer; warm sunshine, gentle zephyrs, thermals from horizon to horizon; right. Wrong; low cloud, occasional heavy showers, southerly wind 20 knots gusting 40 knots. In fact is was so windy that staying on your feet on the runway was a challenge.  Another non flying day.

Low cloud racing past the clubhouse
 The assembled members just quietly got on with the “Jobs to do” list. The repair of the roller was finished, the GusLaunch winch is finished and now ready for the next flying day so that the ML winch can come offline for repairs and new cables. The work on K7M G-DCLT continues.

Repaired roller. ( the slightly misty RH side of photo courtesy of latest shower )

We hope the summer season returns soon.

Steve

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