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After leaving a good energy line to turn Devizes we looked back towards  Rivar only to see that the area of reasonable looking clouds we left had somehow turned to clag within  a matter of minutes. After 10k in sink we were left with too little height to get back to Rivar so diverted to Upavon with only enough height for a quick 360 before landing next to the launch point.

According to Uncle Roy even their DG1000 was only getting 6 minute circuits so we did not feel too bad!

Thanks to Paul  and Rob for retrieving us and to Roy and Eve Gaunt for a great cup of tea 🙂

Phil

P.s I hear you had  a cup of tea at Upavon with Carol a while back Chris! Can you see a common theme going on here?

Question:

What does this http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?daddr=RAF+Upavon

and this, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mug_of_Tea.JPG
 plus this, http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thumb_a_lift
involving this…..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schempp-Hirth_Janus mean??
Still valliant effort Carol and Phil, at least you turned Devizes. Hope you have a photo…..

Selvam took full use of the available instructor capacity but somehow mostly failed to reach the top of the wire which was a shame as it offered 1800ft launches while there was also a little soaring under the stratus with James and Claire managing 20mins plus each and oh we did a trial lesson and isnt punctuation overrated.

Ken in a perfect field, landing uphill, into wind and a spectacular view of the Alton Barnes white horse to enjoy while Jim and I popped along to collect him (and the Ka8).