Saturday 25th. A light to moderate S/SSW'ly wind blew all day accompanied by a low overcast. An exploratory flight by Bob Beck and the younger of the Altman's managed a tow to 1100' but found cloud on the circuit at 400'. The conditions didn't improve, so this turmed out to be the only flight of […] Read More...
Wednesday 22nd. The high pressure continued to decline slowly and the site continued to enjoy sunny skies and light winds, mainly from a WNW'ly direction, so take offs were from runway 24, with landings on 20. The lack of any lift meant it was a good day for training although not for staying up, […] Read More...
Sunday 19th. The high pressure responsible for Saturday's flying weather remained in place and had intensified. The result, in weather and flying terms, were blue skies, light winds, mainly from the WSW and 30 ATs off runway 24, the majority of the landings being on 20. The other characteristic of the flying day was […] Read More...
Thursday 16th. A moderate SE'ly wind that progressively increased to become fresh and gusty, accompanied by low cloud and eventually rain after dark mean it was a non-flying day. Friday 17th. 6.8 mm of rain in the morning presaged another non-flying day, the cloudy skies never clearing sufficiently to allow flying to take place as […] Read More...
Saturday 11th. A fresh SSE'ly gradually veered into the SSW, gusting into the high 30 kts and accompanied by overcast skies that produced 6 mm of rain during the evening. The only flying was in the bar/cafe area where Toby Wilson was to be found demonsrating his Virual Reality gliding rig. Sunday 12th. The wind […] Read More...
Saturday 4th. High cover with a light NW'ly soon gave way to clear blue skies and a light to moderate W'ly that meant a busy day at the launch point, with 26 launches in total, comprising 10 ATs and 16 winch launches, the latter being the only method of launch from early afternoon. Nobody climbed […] Read More...
Wednesday 1st. A sunny day with a light to moderate SE'ly wind that slowly veered into the SSE was made non-flying by the absence of sufficient members and most importantly full cat members. Thursday 2nd. A sunny start with a light to moderate/moderate SSE'ly wind became progressively cloudier as a warm front slowly approached from […] Read More...
