Well, it all went wrong. The weather forecast
that is. The wind was from the east. Skysight was forecasting wave over
the site in the morning and then later in afternoon. It all sounded good and
so the privateers gathered, ready to rig.
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| At times it looked promising |
Meanwhile
on planet reality the ground truth was rotor, rain, low cloud leading to
multiple cups of tea and members peeling off to work on various jobs:
winch drogue chutes, tail wheel tyre and inners, flying accounts,
and probably much more behind the scenes that I didn't see.
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| The retrieve vehicle lies idle while waiting for the conditions to improve |
The
Duty Instructor, Mike Jardine, decided to get the laptop and projector
flashed up to show various RASP pages. The simulator was in use.
Scratch worked on the AMF trailer and I ordered more Hammerite paint.
More tea was drunk. It turned very cold outside and the site wasn't an
inviting page to be.
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| CCY, the one glider we got out, was held down and picketed nose and tail with tyres (Ed: Well at least it had a wash from the rain showers) |
At the East end the wind
was howling, but the persistent low cloud base and poor visibility in the valleys meant
that flying was cancelled. The winch was brought back from the East
end.
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| The sun came out (Ed: The reality was that the wind was howling) |
Despite the sun coming out and much upbeat discussion the Wednesday Wavers decided to call it quits and head home.
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| The Wednesday Wavers' forlorn attempts at talking up the weather to flying conditions |
As
several of us were heading out the gate Colin arrived and co-opted John
Smith to help him with the inspection of K-8, GDK's wings. We look forward to having GDK back on line soon.
Summary: Much "hangar flying" but no real flying.
Here's hoping for something better on Saturday.
Gavin Short
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