Monday 29th. After a very cold night the day dawned with a light to moderate SE'ly blowing, this slowly veering into the S. The club's water supply was restored but the electricity supply was not expected to be back on line until the end of the day. With a high cloudbase the opportunity was taken […] Read More...
Sunday 28th. Storm Arwen left the site covered with snow and with no electricity or water so there was no flying even though the moderate NW'ly wind had veered into the NNW and declined to light by the end of the day. In compensation there were some pretty winter views to be had as shown […] Read More...
Saturday 27th. Storm Arwen made its presence felt as it tracked southwards over the North Sea, the site weather station recording a minimum pressure of 975 mb around 2100 hrs on Friday night before it ceased recording early on Saturday morning. A fresh to strong NNW'ly blew in a mixture of rain, sleet and snow […] Read More...
Friday 26th. A non flying day as operations were scrubbed due to the forecast approach of storm Arwen with its severe gale force N'ly winds. Wind speeds at nearby RAF Topcliffe were initially moderate NW/WNW'lys but slowly increased to moderate to fresh over the course of the flying day with increasing gustiness. Read More...
Thursday 25th. A moderate to fresh NW'ly blew for most of the day before veering into the WNW and becoming light to moderate, this change coming too late to allow any flying to take place. Read More...
Wednesday 24th. A light to moderate SW'ly veered into the NNW later in the day as 13 ATs were flown from runway 24. Blue skies predominated and with smooth air and good visibility, the day's 2 First Flight pupils had every reason to enjoy their introduction to gliding. Two seater flying was the order of […] Read More...
Tuesday 23rd.. The high pressure remained in place, resulting in another initially sunny and light wind day at Sutton although low cloud restricted launch heights at times. The benign conditions favoured the day's 7 First Flight pupils with 20 ATs flown initially off runway 02 into the light NW'ly and then off runway 20 as […] Read More...
Monday 22nd. High pressure was in charge with the result a light wind day and blue skies. Operations were initnally off 02 into a NW'ly breeze and this applied for 8 of the day's 11 ATs, the final 3 being off 20 as the wind dropped. In the absence of any lift most pilots resorted […] Read More...
Saturday 20th. A moderate W'ly continued to blow while showing a tendency to veer into the NNW, providing another day of hill and wave soaring. The day's 28 ATs off runway 24 generated 19 flights of over 30 minutes, 9 of these being over an hour and 5 being over 2 hours, with a number […] Read More...
Friday 19th. A light to moderate W'ly brought another hill and wave soaring day at Sutton, with a number of flights getting to above 10,000' asl. 18 ATs were flown off runway 24 with Steve Thompson and Dave Thompson 1st off in the DG1000 on another attempt to fly the club's 200 km wave task. […] Read More...
