Monday 22nd. Sunny, but hazy blue skies and a light to moderate ESE'ly wind were again the order of the day as the Scandinavian anticyclone remained in place, with the first few of the day's 29 ATs off, and the corresponding landings on, runway 20 before operations changed to runway 06. Thermal conditions developed in […] Read More...
Saturday 20th. The Scandinavian high pressure continued to dominate the weather, the advection of Continental air providing a very warm day, max temperature of 20.4C, blue skies, a light predominately SE'ly wind and some thermal activity. Visitor Steve Codd, with P2 Dewi Humphries, were the first to exploit the convection, having just under 2 hours […] Read More...
Thursday 18th. Subtle changes in the position of the anticyclone over Scandinavia brought changes to the Sutton weather, Thursday bringing an initially light N'ly, this becoming ENE'ly and strengthening to moderate later. Blue conditions were the order of the day, but thermals were hard to find in spite of a maximum temperature of 16.4C. Visitor […] Read More...
Tuesday 16th. A forecast warming trend was not particularly evident as the light to moderate flow from the ENE continued, the wind speed and gustiness being the reason for no flying for the majority of the day. However, an exploratory flight by Steve Thompson and Peter Robinson in the DG500 at 1620 hrs led the […] Read More...
Saturday 13th. A moderate and cold ESE'ly then E'ly blew with 25 kt gusts around the middle of the day, the maximum temperature not getting above 7C, all due to the anticylone over Scandinavia. The first of the 30 flights of the day was off runway 20 with Andy Parish and Kelly Teagle doing a […] Read More...
Tuesday 9th. The anticyclone over Scandinavia continued to dominate the weather with a light to moderate ENE'ly soon backing into the NE, operations being off runway 02. A day of sunny intervals provided a soaring day for some, with 11 of the day's 29 ATs leading to flights in excess of 30 minutes, but with […] Read More...
Thursday 4th. A light to moderate ESE'ly blew all day, being accompanied by significant cloud, the base of which was low enough to restrict flying to a single launch of runway 20. In this Bruce Grain took Donna Walker, a First Flight pupil for 20 minutes in K21 KLW. Friday 5th. The cloudy skies of […] Read More...
Sunday 31st March. A light to moderate wind varying between ENE and N provided a thermic day which saw a number of cross countries flown. Those getting off earliest fared best, as overconvection was a feature of the afternoon and, while nobody landed out, some pilots had to abandon their declared tasks and tip toe […] Read More...
