Monday 20th August - Course week

The sky looked good although the clouds were a little low to start with, it was difficult to get away from below 2000ft with all the recent moisture in the lowest layers. During the afternoon conditions improved although it was still tricky to get away from the winch.

The course had a good first day with everyone getting plenty of flying and continuing on into the evening.

Liam set off to The Park in the Junior, he landed in a large cut field near The Park which qualified for Silver Distance - Congratulations Liam.

Liam's field near The Park

Congrats to Andrew L who flew VG with Stu, getting signed up for Cross Country endorsement.

With a light west north westerly wind, a good looking sea breeze convergence started setting up from Exeter to Honiton. Pete St Discus 230 and Pete & Jill DuoDiscus OL investigated, talking to Exeter as 'glider formation' but the lift wasn't working very well and after 10 minutes Exeter asked us to move north to clear the approach. After some exploring towards Tiverton, the convergence reinvigorated and extended well to the East. OL and then Matt in 230 followed the energy to east of Merryfield. OL continued back across Exeter and then followed another convergence line up the motorway to Wellington. - A super day of convergences.

Sea breeze convergence over the Exe estuary