Wednesday 28th. With a strong area of high pressure centred over southern England, it was a frosty and misty morning in North Yorkshire but the mist in the Vales of York and Pickering left sufficiently clear conditions close to the club to allow flying to get under way after briefing, the wind being a light […] Read More...
Friday 23rd. An active cold front associated with storm Barbara crossed the area around 1330 hrs bringing a temperature drop of 3.4C and a short period of intense rainfall and gusty winds, these peaking in the low 40 kts. With the average winds being moderate to fresh S'lys, becoming fresh W'lys after the passage of […] Read More...
Saturday 17th. Further to my previous Blog, I received a couple of photos which shown the foggy end to Saturday's flying. The first was taken following the parking of the Tug at the launch point after the last launch of the day and shows the fog advancing up runway 20, while the second shows the DG1000 […] Read More...
Friday 16th. Another day of light winds from a SSE'ly direction as high pressure continued to build, holding at bay an Atlantic front over the west of the UK. Early fog in the Vales of York and Pickering slowly lifted into low stratus before dispersing altogether, but this was not the case at site as […] Read More...
Sunday 11th. The high pressure had strengthened slightly, providing a moderate W'ly to start the day, this slowly decreasing as the day progressed, medium to high cover persisting. Similar to Saturday, a combination of hill lift, variable at times, and wave meant it was an interesting flying day, the possibility of soaring leading to 22 […] Read More...
Friday 9th. A mild, light to moderate, initially S'ly airstream brought copious amounts of low cloud and periods of mainly light rain, the cloud shrouding the site. A gradual change in wind direction into the WSW did not lead to any great improvement in the weather so Friday became a non-flying day. Saturday 10th. […] Read More...
Saturday 3rd. Another foggy start to the day for those living in the Vale of York, while clear conditions at Sutton allowed flying to commence at just after 1000 hrs as a light NE'ly blew, this gradually veering into the E. High cover ensued there was little surface heating, consequently, it was a circuit […] Read More...
Wednesday 30th. A light WNW'ly briefly strengthened to moderate in the middle of the day, probably the result of wave influence, as some of the day's 13 ATs resulted in some limited climbs in weak lift with 2 flights exceeding an hour and five 30 minutes. Roger Burghall flying the DG303 recorded the longest flight, […] Read More...
