Forecast not at all encouraging but a sufficient number of “Wednesday boys” turned out anyway. It felt as if we had returned to January but sometimes you just have to get your bum off the ground. Steve B brought on-line the new caravan that he and John Turk have been working on. Steve set the longest flight target early on – only 12 minutes but no one else was able to match it – well not until the last flight of the day which had the benefit of a 2,000′ launch .
Sunday 1st April. April Fool?
We got off to a good start with some early soaring under little cu, which fooled everyone into thinking it was going to be a cracking day. But after a bit the cu disappeared and soaring got harder, with quite a few relights needed. Pete said it was rubbish, and could only stand it for 3hrs. A couple of gliders from somewhere else came by calling out good climbs, but they were obviously only baiting us as they only ever did a couple of turns then moved on. But towards the end of the day, Steve (recently converted to the Vega) got over an hour in it, and Graham did as Liz had ordered yesterday and got a bronze leg with over an hour in the Ka8 just back from Annual.
Saturday 31 March. Tea needed drinking.
Let’s see now:
Mon weather: CAVOK (cloud and visibility OK)
Tue weather: CAVOK
Wed weather: CAVOK
Thu weather: CAVOK
Fri weather: CAVOK
Sat weather: 8/8 stratus at 400ft
Sun forecast: CAVOK
Any guesses whose duty day it was today? Anyway, Graham dutifully turned up to support his instructor, and was sent away so he could come back tomorrow and get at least one leg of his bronze badge.
Did he succeed?? You’ll have to read tomorrow’s blog.
Wednesday 28th – Another Sunny Day
and with the sunny day came the inversion (at just over 2,000′). That didn’t stop the “Wednesday boys” packing in the launches – all 38 of them, 9 of which were over 20 minutes. Modesty stops me from mentioning who took longest flight honours with 54 minutes.
Colin was kept busy with checks. Bill O converted to the Vega. It was good to see Dave O (who used to be a member about 10 years ago and has been working overseas) who got back into winch launching. We were also able to welcome Brian L as new member.
Quite a day