Sunday 29th. After the sunshine of Saturday, Sunday reverted to type with extensive cloud coming in off the North Sea on a light to moderate NE'ly wind. However, the cloud base was high enough to allow gliding to take place, with the day providing 11 ATs off runway 06, with most landings on 02. Apart […] Read More...
Saturday 28th. In spite of apparently little change to the synoptic situation with the High Pressure feeding in a light breeze from the the North Sea, Saturday had sunny blue skies and Cumulus instead of the low overcast that has hindered flying over the past few days. Consequently, it was a very busy day at […] Read More...
Wednesday 25th The feed of a low overcast off the North Sea on the eastern flank of a large area of high pressure continued, with a launch off runway 06 by Laurie Clark and the first of the day's 3 First Flight pupils having to release at 1250' asl, with flying then suspended. However, mid […] Read More...
Tuesday 24th. With the anticyclone still in place over the UK not much changed weather wise, the wind remaining light from the N/NE and bringing extensive cloud that was low enough to delay the start of flying until 1435 hrs. Thereafter, the day team flew 6 launches before the Tuesday evening team added a further […] Read More...
Monday 23rd. An anticyclone over the UK brought a day of sunny periods, a light NE'ly wind and convection, resulting in 7 soaring flights out of the 22 flown off runway 02. The longest flight by far, 3:46, sawBill Payton fly his DG1000 solo around a 187 km task, with TPs at Goole NE, Pontefract […] Read More...
Friday 21st. The sequence of non-soaring/soaring days came to a halt on Friday as a cloudy light S/SSE'ly airflow restricted soaring opportunities although not preventing flying. Consequently, the wasn't a task set for the Task Week competitors so the day's flying was club based, although John Marsh flew his DG303 for 1:12, the longest of […] Read More...
Wednesday 19th. My suggestion of the winner of Day 1 of Task Week turned out to be correct with Andrew Cluskey claiming top spot, with Fred Brown 2nd. John Ellis 3rd and Toby Wilson 4th. After a non contest day on Tuesday, the weather on Wednesday as a light to moderate W'ly blew was more […] Read More...
Monday 16th. A southward travelling, weak cold front brought a low overcast but this cleared late morning allowing both flying to commence off runway 24 into a light NW'ly around midday and the first real task of YGC's Task Week to be set. 4 pilots undertook the task and while I haven't access to the […] Read More...
Saturday 14th. A light to moderate and at times moderate W'ly meant it was a day of mixed launch methods with 6 intial ATs off runway 24 changing to winching with 13 flown, and later, as the wind speed dropped, reverting to ATing with 6 flown. In addition there were 2 self launches. The day, […] Read More...
Friday 13th. A moderate to fresh WSW'ly resulted in a winch day with consistent hill lift and thermal and wave as well, a few isolated showers missing the site. As a result 37 launches were flown off runway 24, with 27 flights exceeding 30 minutes and 11 an hour. The promising conditions led to 12 […] Read More...
