Bank Holiday Monday dawned with clear blue skies and a fairly good looking
RASP. The field was prepared with the Gus launch as far west as it could go
giving an extra 1300feet of cable. So even with the light wind forecast good
launch heights should be possible.
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Rigging in action. The foreground shows the Zugvogel 3B.
Behind is the very rare Schleicher K10 |
The clubs K13 and K8 were prepared for flight while several private gliders
were rigged. Amongst all this activity the twin astir was towed down to the
hanger for its Annual Inspection.
With rather flat looking cumulus forming the first launch of the day was Rick
Wiles the duty instructor. Rick was soon climbing away before air braking back
down to report very strong thermal activity.
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| Early in the day the flat looking CU marked some very usable thermals |
Steve Lewis was next in the K13 with Tommy Daves ( Steve's granddaughter's other half) , Tommy enjoyed a
good thermaling flight of 39 minutes.
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| Tommy and Steve soaring in the K13 |
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| Wafting along at 4100 feet |
Mike Bennett was next to launch in the club K8 and was hoping to get a one
hour flight which he judged to perfection landing after exactly 60 minutes nice
one Mike.
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| Mike soaring in the K8 as viewed from the K13 |
Dene Hitchen (scratch) needed a 2 hour flight after launching in his Astir he
was soon climbing away to the cloud base at about 4200ft and managed the longest
flight of the day at 2 hours and 18 minutes.
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| A Buzzard soaring over the launchpoint |
The Twin Astir then made an appearance after the successful completion of its
inspection unfortunately condition had detreated and despite the best efforts of
Phil Hardwick, Malcolm Roberts, Ged Nevisky and Martin Broadway they could not
get away.
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| Twin Astir missed to best of the weather |
During all this activity Rick also managed to fit in some training for club
members including a few practice cable brakes.
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| Karon preparing tp fly with Rick |
Thanks to everyone who turned up today and especially to the winch drivers
you know who you are and Karon for manning the launch point for the majority of
the day.
Overall a fantastic days flying
Andrew Davey
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