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| Westerly breeze under a low cloudbase |
A small but beautifully formed sub set of the club membership got together today to test their soaring skills against today's conditions. Mostly overcast with a westerly breeze there was hope of the great launches of last week but with cattle in the top field we were back to launching off the shorter runway length leading to about 1150 feet launches for the K13's. RASP was not too hopeful suggesting that there might be a soarable window later in the afternoon.
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| Today's veiw of Brentor Church from the top of the launch |
In the event, it was soarable from midday. But it was not easy. Very narrow elusive bubbles to carry gliders to the low 2000 feet cloudbase. Sometimes it was more productive to fly with the wings level and just pull through the bubbles which were tending to street in the strengthening breeze. But a few pilots could make it work.
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| One Day Course Candidate Robert Sutton. |
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| Robert keeping a good lookout as we approach our next cloud. |
I managed a couple of good soaring flights with today's One Day Course candidate Robert Sutton. Today's private grid consisted of the Astir CS, Discus BT, Twin Astir, SF27 and the rare K10. Richard recorded the best flight in the Discus flying for 1hr 13minutes on a local task which he abandoned after struggling with the inconsistent thermals and low cloudbases. Interestingly, Richard chose to fly the Discus without it's winglets today. I asked him the reason for this; " Because I can" was the answer. The Twin Astir had a couple of short soaring flights.
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| A busy but untidy launcpoint. |
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| Richard's Discus without winglets |
It was great to see Rita Smith back again continuing her flying training. Rita is also getting to grips with the work around the launchpoint when not flying.
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| The very rare K10. |
Our thanks to the winchdrivers, all those who helped and of course, once again to Heather for her endless cable retrieve duties
Steve
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