Shalbourne Gliding – OLD WEBSITE
A friendly gliding club in Wiltshire
A pleasant start to the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness – even if the blackberries on the airfield had past their best. There was even some soaring on offer. Paul B set the target at 22 minutes which an hour later Rob J pipped with his 23 minute flight. Paul did not take kindly to his soaring crown being taken so back to the K8 to fly for an unbeatable 37 minutes.
While we were clocking up 30 launches Colin B and Ken H were busy working away stripping down the reserve winch.
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
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