Dartmoor Gliding News - Saturday 23rd September 2023

We had a flyable window between the frontal systems responsible for the rain this week. The wind was forecast to be southerly giving us crosswind conditions (again) and increasing as the day progressed, RASP was forecasting good soaring conditions with 3 Stars. This turned out to be hopelessly optimistic (again).

Crosswind under a hopeless sky

All day there was high cloud cover eliminating any real thermal production, just a few teases from the slopes on the south side of the airfield. The longest flight was Adam Hoskin in a K8 with a dizzying 10 minutes.

K13's at the laiunchpoint

There were 2 visitors today, Anna Johnson with a One Day Course and Neil Keyworth with an Air Experience voucher. Both enjoyed their flights.

IFP Steve Fletcher with Neil Keyworth

Anna receives her certificate from Scratch

The big news today were 2 new members Josh Wehner and Freddie Varley. Welcome to DGS and enjoy your flying.

Josh with Rick

Freddie waiting for his first flight with me

By 5.30 the crosswind had strengthened and the temperature had lowered enough to discourage further flying So we finished with 38 launches for the day.

This was our welcome on return to the clubhouse.

Steve