The weather was more like
early spring than mid-December, this encouraged a good turnout. As the
gliders were taken out of the hanger there was quite a condensation
problem, after the di's were done we had to wait for the canopies to
clear.
After much
polishing the canopies stayed clear Mike Fitz & John Street were
first off to a quite robust launch, the wind at ground level was about
10kt southwesterly but at the top of the launch the wind veered to a westerly and a wind speed of over 40kt, this gave us some interesting
launches to good heights.
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| Spring-like weather (John Street) |
There
was obviously some wave in action with lots of lenticulars about but mostly
out of reach although some flights managed bits of smooth air - but nothing you
could climb in.
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| Wavey sky (John Street) |
Pete
Warren was tuggie and managed six aerotows after much soliciting - but none
of them contacted wave, Robert didn't have the longest flight today
this honour went to Roly with 31min but that was with an aerotow! Mike
Fitz managed 23min with a winch launch in some kind of wave lift.
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| Mike Fitz getting ready to fly (John Street) |
The
canopy misting problem returned at about 3:30pm, but by this time
everyone had flown, at close of play all the gliders were washed and
cleaned ready for the BGA audit visit. - John Street
