This morning saw the airfield shrouded in low cloud and drizzle. The forecast listed an 80% chance of heavy rain and thunderstorms. This in turn lead to the cancellation of our visitor flying for the day. This decision has to be made early enough to prevent visitors from setting out as some come from many miles away.
However, by 11am, as the cloudbase was rising dramatically, it was out with a K13 to do a little flying before the weather breaks down. The forecast was wrong for Brentor today. The weather improved and then improved some more allowing soaring flights up to about half an hour or so. These conditions lasted all day. The weather did eventually break down with torrential rain at about 6:45 as we left the airfield
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| K13 G-CHXP soaring in the unexpected sunshine |
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| A training flight on final approach |
The day was not wasted though with Ged conducting training flights with Simon Collier, Mike Bennett and Dave Downton. Rick Wiles did have a couple of visitors to fly, Amanda Blaxley and Andy Hunston.
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| Visitor Amanda Blaxley |
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| Visitor Andy Hunston |
We also conducted some winch training. Fred Marks was signed off as a winch driver and Mike Bennett began his winch training.
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| Mike training in the winch with Rick |
An unexpectedly nice day.
Steve
1 comment:
Amanda's name is Blaxley, not Bladey!!! I will need to get her a new certificate! lol
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