Wednesday 29th. The light to moderate, cold flow from the NNW/WNW continued, with generally sunny skies and patchy cloud. Operations, amounting to 8 ATs off runway 24 with landings on 02 or 06, didn't commence until around 1230 hrs when the 1st of the day's 3 First Flight pupils had 20 minutes with Bruce Grain […] Read More...
Sunday 26th. Thickening high cover and a light to moderate SE'ly flow meant a quiet day's gliding, with 14 ATs off runway 20, including 4 for First Flight pupils and 2 in the Astir. In the absence of any lift, flight times were generally in the 15-20 minute band, while a number of pilots took […] Read More...
Friday 23rd. A flood of Artic air led to a marked reduction in temperature over the day in spite of it being generally sunny, the change being accompanied by a moderate to fresh NNW'ly gusting to the mid 30kts. Although the wind moderated slowly over the day as it backed into the NW, conditions were […] Read More...
Saturday 18th. Atlantic fronts crossing the UK brought low cloud and rain, so there was no flying as the light SE'ly veered into the WSW and increased to moderate. Sunday 19th. An almost stationary occluded front over the north of England brought low cloud and rain at times to the site, as a light SW'ly […] Read More...
Thursday 16th. A weak and slow moving occluded front brought low cloud, murky conditions and light rain at times, as a light and variable, mainly SSE'ly blew, so there was no flying. Friday 17th. A weak and transient ridge of high pressure brought a sunny start to the day, but orographic forming on the ridges […] Read More...
Sunday 12th. A sunny start with a light S'ly blowing, soon gave way to lowering clouds as the wind backed into the SE and slowly increased to moderate as frontal rain moved in from the W limiting flying to 2 ATs off runway 20. The second saw Jamie Quartermaine/Charles Frechville have 20 minutes in K21 […] Read More...
Wednesday 8th. Morning rain from a frontal system soon cleared to the east allowing flying to get underway by early afternoon, by which time the SE'ly wind had veered into the W, its strength quickly declining from moderate to fresh to light by the end of the flying day. The result was 6 winch and […] Read More...
Monday 6th. A light to moderate SW'ly wind in an unstable air mass, brought in frequent and at times heavy showers, so there was no flying. Tuesday 7th. A day of sunny intervals, as a light to moderate W'ly slowly veered into the WNW. Flying commenced around 1020 hrs with Clive Swain/Derek Taylor taking the […] Read More...
Friday 3rd. Storm Ciaran had moved off into the North Sea and weakened, its local legacy being a flying day with a moderate WNW'ly wind under relatively sunny skies, the wind dying down to light towards the end of the day. The result was a hill soaring day with 12 AT launches, 2 by private […] Read More...
Wednesday 1st. An initially light to moderate S'ly wind increased to moderate to fresh and veered into the SW as Storm Ciaran approached from the Atlantic. Early fog and rain soon cleared and the broken cloud's base was high enough not to interfere with flying and with the airfield sufficiently dried out, flying got under […] Read More...
