After sneaking a flight in the LS3 (it was my duty day after all), when Colin kindly offered to fly the day course chappie for me, I was launched into a good thermal which took me to 3200ft.
By hopping across the cloud streets I managed RIV,NES,LAS,RIV in just under the hour to give me an average xc speed of 82kph.
Saturday 12th June
A day that just kept getting better, well with thick overcast skies as we set the airfield up it was just as well. The Nimbus, Pegase, Libelle, ’15, Skylark and Janus rigged. I did about 200km after abandoning the original task at Cirencester as it looked flat ahead. Chris and Liz did RIV-Swindon and back without turning later in the day, it was later in the day as earlier Chris landed out.
Sunday 6th June
A very quiet day, perhaps due to the earlier forecasts, but one with soaring opportunities throughout. The crosswind provided a tailwind component that followed us all day despite changing ends at half time but most people ended up with flights in the half hour range. Plenty of instructing and solo flying capacity was available and the repaired Skybrid ran perfectly on both drums.
On the hill down to Fosbury is this interesting piece of hedgerow…
The web of the Ermine Yponomeuta moths (google), unless corrected.
Sunday 30th and Monday 31st May
After the persistant rain of Saturday…
Sunday brought strong climbs and 5500ft QNH cloudbase, but only me in 737 and Chris in FRP rigged and flew, the others maybe put off by the 20kt winds aloft… Cirrus came over during the afternoon so I abandoned my task and headed to the brighter north instead, ending up with around 200km – Chris flew the Reader’s Digest version.
Monday had been promissed as a cracker but one of you angered the soaring gods and the day broke overcast and the morning forecasts equally gloomy. It didn’t get a whole heap better… Jim in 737 and myself ‘n’ Phil in 383 managed half an hour and other scratching took place. Prior to this Phil signed Jim off as a Half Wit instructor.