A day of frequent, and sometimes heavy showers, saw twelve flights in club aircraft only. The longest flight for a club two-seater was 36 mionutes, by John Taylor and Ken Duxbery. Alan Beaumont and KRN took the honours for the single-seaters with 52 minutes, closely followed by Toby Wilson in the other Astir at […] Read More...
We started the day expecting significant rain showers with possible some thunder clouds later on, but it proved to be less dramatic than forecast, although we did receive 5mm of the wet stuff in several heavy showers. Unfortunately, the DG500 suffered a puncture that was not repairable today, but despite this the three other […] Read More...
A much earlier start to flying today than yesterday: 9:57. There were twenty-three winch launches, five aerotows, and one training motor-glider flight. Paul Whitehead showed the tantalising "wave" prediction at briefing, and wave clouds were visible for much of the morning, although at some distance. They re-appeared after in mid-afternoon. Darren Lodge was the first […] Read More...
(Updated. Original posting was from incomplete data). Flying started at 10:22, and thirty flights were launched by winch, which according to the records was the first outing for the winch since 2nd July. The longest club two-seater flight of the day was by Chris Shepherd and Robert Hutchinson and lasted for 1:02, whilst […] Read More...
Wednesday Three seasons in a day: Torrential rain in the morning, lighter rain in the afternoon and a west wind with bright skies later on. Flying eventually got under way at 5pm to enable the Glide Britain team to get ridge running action shots. Along with a team member in the Lasham K21, John Tayler […] Read More...
The day started with some bad news in that a car had crashed at the bend of High Town Bank Road where it has its junction with Low Town Bank Road. The crash resulted in a fatality, so please take care when negotiating this bend. Access to the club was limited for most of the […] Read More...
Saturday 22nd Early morning low cloud and heavy rain delayed flying until 14:25 (Wetherby later had to clear up flood damage from the water). With the appearance of a clearance, flying started at 14:25 when Paul Whitehead and guest flew the Falke on its single sortie of the day. There was one trial flight, which, […] Read More...
Wednesday: Low cloud and intermittant rain meant this was a day for TLC on the club's assets and for catching up with admin. Thursday: More rain and low overcast kept the gliders on the ground until about 3pm. The hardy souls that had hung around for the clearance were rewarded with hill and thermal conditions […] Read More...
A fleet of over 30 vintage and classic cars from a bygone era dropped in at the club to admire the view, watch the gliding and sample Liz's famous lunchtime fare. See pic below. Not surprisingly the car owners had a lot in common with most YGC members present being of the same vintage themselves. […] Read More...
An anticyclonic day with a light southeasterly backing to become a lively easterly. Another day to slap on the sun block! The early low stratus had burnt off by 10-30 when operations got under way on r/w 20. Training and air experience flights predominated throughout the day as x/c opportunities appeared limited given the conditions. […] Read More...
