Wednesday 14th October

Yet another glorious October day in Devon, although the visibility was not very good, barely being able to see the south coast. But it was warm, bright and sunny with a very slack south easterly wind. It became thermic just before lunch, and continued until the end of play around 17:00. Early afternoon thermals were giving a good 3-4kts to 2500' QFE cloudbase.
The new intake from Exeter University GC have started their training.
There were a couple of Trial Lessons and a group from Pocklington visited to view the old winch, they have agreed to buy it.

News from Portmoak
After drying off and polishing the gliders we had an educational trip to the local RSPB reserve - not as daft as it sounds if you're at all interested, as this is one of the best places in Britain to see migrating waders and to find out about the squadrons of Pink Footed geese, seen whiffling out of the evening sky on previous days.

Eventually the wind picked up just enough to take a launch and hang on to the ridge for an hour late in the afternoon.

18 degrees here today so very warm and thousands of geese appeared on cue at 18:00 - spectacular.