Tuesday 2nd to Thursday 4th February
Tuesday 2nd. A cloudy and wet NNWly airstream prevented flying, with precipitation changing from rain to sleet to wet snow as the temperature dropped during the day from 5C to 2C, the skies clearing as night fell.
Wednesday 3rd. A bright but cold start in a very light SSE’ly flow saw flying commence at around 1100 hrs and continue to around 1600 hrs under increasingly cloudy skies. 13 ATs were flown using one of the club’s K21s or the DG303, but with no lift, flight times were generally in the 10-20 minutes range. Rob Bailey managed 22 minutes in the DG 303 while Mike Wood gave the 2nd Trial Lesson pupil of the year, J Nelson, a flight of 20 minutes in the K21.
Thursday. The SSE airstream and increasingly cloudy conditions of Wednesday,which had brought a period of snow during the evening, continued into Thursday, leaving the site in cloud all day with fog at lower levels. Consequently, no flying was possible, so Andy Parish prepared the club Astir for its forthcoming ARC by hard waxing it, his efforts resulting in a nice shiny glider by the end of the day.