Another Wednesday. Another stonking RASP (Randomly Accurate Soaring Prediction) forecast. Would it come to fruition?
There was a hive of early activity, whilst privateers rigged beneath a sky which was already popping by 9:00; by 10:00 there was a healthy collection of gliders ranged at the East End launch point.
Trainees Ian King, Dave Osment, and Ken Hamblin all enjoyed soaring flights in CCY with Mike Jardine, whilst John Allan, Andy Davey, John Osment, Steve Fletcher, Peter Howarth, Alasdair Barclay, and The Malcolms all achieved good soaring flights in their respective machines. Steve managed 83km and the Malcolm's also did well, Andy reached Wellington but decided conditions weren’t that great so turned around. John Allan took a slightly different route and managed a declared 300km.
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| Duty Instructor's view from the West. |
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| Ian King at 3,300ft in the K13. |
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| Peter's view over Roadford Lake. |
Conditions were sadly over-developed during the afternoon, and those who had not been lucky enough to “get away” early on were generally constrained to extended circuits.
Duty BI Phil Hardwick and the Puchasz were kept busy with our five visitors today; Anne Guest, Russell Jarmen, Anthony Smith, Thomas Preston-Gray, and Mike Rego.
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| Mike Rego with Phil Hardwick, getting ready to launch. |
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| Anthony Preston-Gray raring to go for his first flight. |
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| Anthony Smith and Phil are all smiles ahead of their flight. |
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| Anne Guest and Phil, ready to go! |
We were also privileged enough to receive a visit from Richard Stevens MBE, Managing Director of Plymouth Citybus and generous benefactor of our two launch-point busses. Richard was given a tour of our operations and thoroughly enjoyed a soaring flight with Mike Jardine in CCY. There was even talk of another bus going spare; has anyone seen John “Converter” Smith?!
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| Richard Stevens, Managing Director of Plymouth Citybus
all set for his flight with Mike Jardine |
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Overall, we achieved 37 flights with the last landing at 18:20; a long but enjoyable day for all. Man of the match today goes to John Allan who achieved his Diamond Distance (300k) - congratulations John!
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| Steve Fletcher's view of Burrator. |
Thank you to everyone at the club today, especially Mike Bennett, Alasdair Barclay, John Smith, and Peter Howarth who did all of the winching.
David Osment
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