Wednesday 25th. A moderate and warm day, with hazy sunshine at times, provided some soaring in hill and wave, with 4 of the day's 12 ATs off runway 20 leading to flights of over 30 minutes, with 2 of these over an hour. Fred Brown, flying his Ventus 2t had the longest flight, 2:11, finding […] Read More...
Monday 23rd. A W'ly blew all day, declining from moderate/fresh to light, but with increasing cloud as a front slowly advanced from the W. 18 winch launches were flown from runway 24, with wave augmented hill lift and some weak wave resulting in 10 flights of over 30 minutes, of which 5 were over an […] Read More...
Sunday 22nd. A moderate to fresh W'ly slowly moderated over the day but provided good hill and some wave soaring on a day when 36 winch launches were flown off runway 24 and all the available club two and single seater fleet were flown. 23 of the day's flights equalled or exceeded 30 minutes, with […] Read More...
Saturday 21st. Under generally cloudy skies, a variable SW'ly in strength and direction brought of day of hill and wave soaring, with 10 of the day's flights, 10 via the winch and 8 via AT, exceeding 30 minutes, with 3 of these over an hour. The early winch launches led to hill soaring flights, with […] Read More...
Friday 20th. A day of light to moderate to moderate to fresh winds, initially SE'ly before veering into the WSW, also featured a low overcast and occasional light rain, the conditions restricting the day's flying to a single AT off runway 20, James Shaw/Jamie Conway taking an 1,100' tow in K21 JVZ and landing back […] Read More...
Thursday 19th. A light to moderate E'ly veered into the S in the late afternoon and declined to become light, but the accompanying low overcast meant it was a non flying day. Read More...
Wednesday 18th. A generally cloudy day with a moderate to fresh and at times fresh ESE'ly blowing, led to operations off runway 06, but these were limited to two 1,100' tows, with instructors Dave McKinney and Chris O'Doyle swapping PI and P2 allocations in K21 JVZ before declaring conditions a little too sporty for continued […] Read More...
Tuesday 17th. A sunny start to the day saw high cloud steadily increase, the moderate to fresh NNW wind delaying the start of flying until around midday, the wind veering into the N and decreasing to light by the end of the flying day. 12 ATs were flown off runway 02, but, with only some […] Read More...
Friday 13th. A weak front travelling southwards brought low cloud and rain from 0200-0900hrs, the clearance, heralding in a much colder airmass, not arriving until early evening, so there was no flying. Saturday 14th. A day of sunny, blue skies to start with increasing high cover as the day progressed, and a light to moderate […] Read More...
Monday 8th to Thursday 12th. The run of non flying days continued as the combination of low cloud and rain persisted throughout the period, even though the wind direction switched from the SE quadrant on Monday/Tuesday to the NE quadrant by Thursday, with the local rainfall over this period totalling 23.8 mm. Read More...
