Tuesday 6th. The overcast, initially low and limiting launch heights to around 1,000' QFE, later rose, allowing release heights to briefly to increase to around 2,000' QFE before lowering again, with subsequent release heights at 1,500' QFE or below. The light to moderate NE'ly blew all day, with operations from the first AT at 1050 […] Read More...
Sunday 4th The anticyclone to the NW of the UK continued to feed cloud in off the North Sea on a light to moderate NNE'ly, the resulting overcast restricting ATs to less than 1500' QFE, for most of the day, with the highest, 1800' QFE off the last flight of the day. As a result, […] Read More...
Thursday 1st. Early light drizzle and a low overcast as a moderate NNE'ly continued to blow, kept the gliders in the hangar, the low overcast persisting for most of the day, . However, the cloud base rose sufficiently from late morning to allow the Falke to have 4 flights, most of which were for field […] Read More...
Tuesday 30th. The light to moderate wind continued to blow from the NNE and bring in an overcast, this being low enough to delay the start of flying until around 1130 hrs, but then rose sufficiently to allow normal AT release heights. The overcast tended to break up around 1500 hrs although reforming later. The […] Read More...
