Friday 28th. A moderate and at times moderate to fresh WSW'ly blew, this tending to back into the SW over the course of the day. 15 ATs were flown, the visitors from the Portsmouth Naval GC providing 6 of these split evenly between their K21 and single seaters with 2 of the YGC's K21s, the […] Read More...
Thursday 27th. A mild, damp and light to moderate SSE'ly airstream kept the site in cloud for most of the day, a clearance coming too late to allow any flying. Read More...
Tuesday 25th. A light to moderate SW'ly that slowly backed into the SSE provided another interesting day of soaring at Sutton with 18 of the day's 31 launches leading to flights of over 30 minutes with 6 of these over an hour. Weak wave, often but not restricted to an area close to and SE […] Read More...
Saturday 22nd. A light to moderate SSW'ly slowly veered into the SW providing a good day's soaring in hill and wave lift, the day's 34 ATs off runway 24 resulting in 29 flights of over 30 minutes with 20 of these being over an hour. Indeed, it wasn't until the 20th launch of the day […] Read More...
Tuesday 18th. A sunny start with a light WSW'ly was soon replaced by partially cloudy skies and a light to moderate NE'ly, with initial operations off runway 24 soon changing to runway 02. The sky initially looked promising, but the cloudiness became extensive by the early afternoon, so that useable lift was hard to find, […] Read More...
Saturday 15th. A moderate to moderate to fresh WSW'ly blew under partly cloudy skies, 13 winch launches being flown off runway 24, onto which all the returning gliders landed. The 13 launches led to 9 flights of over 30 minutes with 4 greater than an hour as hill, wave and some thermal lift provided the […] Read More...
Friday 14th. A light to moderate and at times moderate SW blew, slowly veering into the WSW, the 22 ATs generating 16 flights of over 30 minutes of which 6 were over an hour, hill and wave lift providing the soaring opportunities. Starting off operations on runway 20, a switch was made to runway 24 […] Read More...
Tuesday 11th. A sunny start was followed by increasing cloud from around midday as a light to moderate SSW'ly later strengthened to moderate. Operations were off runway 24 with most landings on 20, 21 ATs being flown. Visitor Neil Oakley used the first thermal of the day to extend his flight over 20 minutes but […] Read More...
Monday 10th. A moderate WNW'ly increased to moderate to fresh around the middle of the day before decreasing back to light to moderate, the initially sunny skies producing some Cumulus which faded by late afternoon. Launching was via AT behind the Pawnee with a combination of hill lift, thermal and some weak wave leading to […] Read More...
Friday 7th. An active cold front crossed the area in the morning, bringing rain and low cloud from 09-1100 hrs, but, with the skies brightening in the early afternoon, flying was possible from around 1500 hrs, with, hill lift, thermal and some wave to soar in, the wind being a moderate and at times moderate […] Read More...
