Thursday 30th. A moderate W'ly blew all day following the overnight passage of a weak cold front that didn't bring any rain. The cooler air mass produced some good thermal conditions with a high cloud base of up to 6,500' asl and average peak climb rates around 5.5 kts, but apart from one flight, wave […] Read More...
Wednesday 29th. The WSW'ly continued to blow, albeit as light to moderate, as a weakening cold front made slow progress SE'wards, bringing generally cloudy skies to site. Any lift was limited to weak thermals and hill lift, with the result that only 3 flights from the 21 ATs flown off runway 24 exceeded 30 minutes, […] Read More...
Tuesday 26th. The wind continued to blow from the W'ly quadrant, being a moderate to fresh WSW'ly, again providing lift via hill, thermal and wave. The latter proved to be more readily accessible than on previous days, with the result that 4 flights climbed to between 5-10,000' asl, 5 to between 10- 15,000' asl and […] Read More...
Monday 27th. A moderate to moderate to fresh W'ly blew all day, providing a mix of hill, thermal and wave lift, the latter not that easy to contact, but the availability of lift meant that 17 of the day's launches, 11 via AT and 5 via the winch, led to flights of over 30 minutes […] Read More...
Sunday 26th. Some locally heavy showers in the early hours cleared away leaving the site in a initially cloudy and moderate to fresh WNW'ly airstream. The start of flying was delayed until midday when the 1st of the day's 4 winch launches off runway 24 took off , with pilots Fred Brown/Chris Thirkell having 0:55 […] Read More...
Saturday 25th. After a sunny start, cloudiness increased as weak fronts made progress SE'wards across the UK bringing a few sprinkles of rain and some pre frontal wave that was utilised by those taking early launches. A moderate to fresh W/WSW'ly slowly decreased to moderate over the day, so it was winching off runway 24 […] Read More...
Friday 24th. An essentially blue day, but with wave clouds visible over the Pennines, led to some high wave climbs and wave XCs from the day's 23 ATs and 3 self launches off runway 24. 5 flights climbed to between 5k & 10k' asl, 3 between 10k and15k asl and 2 over 15k asl. One […] Read More...
Thursday 23rd.. Another bright and generally cloudy day, but with sufficient breaks to provide thermal activity for local soaring and a couple of XCs, the 15 ATs off runway 02 into a light N'ly that backed into the WNW generating 6 flights of over an hour with all the rest under 30 minutes Conditions included […] Read More...
Wednesday 22nd. A generally cloudy day, but with sufficient thermal activity to lead to 10 flights of 30 minutes or more from the 19 ATs and 1 self launch off runway 02 into a initially moderate N'ly that slowly decreased to light and backed into the WNW. Cloud base was around 4,500' asl and average […] Read More...
Tuesday 21st. A generally cloudy day with sunny intervals as a light but later moderate ESE'ly blew. Operations continued off runway 02 with the occasional landing on runway 06, but with limited lift, only 3 of the day's ATs gave rise to flights of 30 minutes or more, with none over 36 minutes. The latter […] Read More...
