The ridge of high pressure that has brought some settled weather for us is still here. This may well suppress the thermals and it will certainly make the visibility poor with dust trapped under the inversion. The wind is forecast for just east of north, ie. straight across the runway but at a manageable 8 knots or so. Perhaps the north ridge will provide some entertainment or at least assist with thermal production.
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The cross wind and hazy sky with quite a bit of light top cover |
The solo pilots fancied the look of the day so there was quite a lot of rigging activity early on including an appearance by the Twin Astir, Mini Nimbus, various Libelles and the DG300 all joining the club aircraft of 2*K13's, Puchacz, and Astir CS77.
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The pair of K13s ready to go |
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A Libelle |
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DG300 with Mini Nimbus behind and a Libelle in the distance |
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Another Libelle ( Club model this time ) emerges from it's trailer |
Our visitor programme was fully subscribed today with Nick Grech-Cini, a very keen flight sim user, attending for a One Day Course and Fiona Tomkinson, Roger Rowland and Zac Smith all presenting with 2 flight vouchers. A real team effort saw myself, Phil Hardwick and Scratch sharing the instruction. All our visitors enjoyed some soaring and all were smiling at the end of the day.
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The Twin Astir launching |
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John's hazy view from the Mini Nimbus at 3000ft above the airfield |
Club training was handled today by Rick Wiles who was kept reasonably busy by Jamie, Viktor, Valerie and Freddie.
A good club day.
Steve
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