Wednesday 16th
shalbourne soaring-flying report 16th.jan 2016
Finally a day arrived when we could get the toys out and get airborne. With a north westerly wind blowing it meant that the winch could be sited at the top end of the field and along with the overnight frost towing out and retrieving cables was not a problem.
Jim c was d.i. and enough members turned out to brave the cold to enable us to fly. We only had two gliders the k8 and jmx. Everybody managed to get a flight in the fairly benign conditions and we managed 13 launches before calling it a day around 14.00. Flights averaged from 8 to 11 minutes with 1500ft launches. Thanks rob h and graham t. All in all not a bad day.
shalbourne soaring 20th.oct 2015
What a cracking late october day for gliding. Stephen o decided to bring mid week flying forward a day because wednesdays forecast was c—. It turned out to be a brilliant decision because soaring wise it turned out to be as good a day if not better than some of the mid summer days. Best flight of the day went to Darren mc.c in the k8 of just over an hour and loads of flights in double figures and climbs to 3000ft plus. All in all a very good day.
Saturday 12th.September
Due to other commitments I did not arrive on site until around 11.30.The field had been set up and the Puchasz was sitting by the caravan along with a complement of seven other members including the duty instructor Pete S.The only problem was it was raining due to a line of showers being blown along west to east in a strong westerly wind and cloudbase was below 1000ft.With no sign of an imminent improvement in the weather the D.I. took the decision to scrub.The lads and girls rallied round and the equipment and aircraft were put to bed and we went our different ways.By 13.30 the sun was shining,cloudbase had gone up and it looked very soarable.This is a classic case of Sods Law I guess