Tuesday 7th. Another day of moderate to moderate to fresh W/WSW'ly winds with the cloudy skies clearing from mid afternoon, meant another day of hill, thermal and for some wave soaring. Thermals were generally weak and the wave gentle, but 10 flights of over 30 minutes of which 5 were over an hour came from […] Read More...
Monday 5th. With the Azores anticyclone extending northwards and continuing to influence the UK weather, it was another day with light to moderate WSW'lies, a high level overcast covering the northern half of the UK and restricting thermal activity. Lift was therefore mainly confined to hill and wave, although the latter was only utilised by […] Read More...
Sunday 5th. The light to moderate/ moderate, W/WSW'ly continued to blow, but now accompanied by predominately cloudy skies, which did, however, provide lift with hill, thermal and some wave utilised by the 12 ATs off runway 24. 1 private owner and 5 First Flight pupils made up half the launch total, with 6 flights of […] Read More...
Saturday 4th. A moderate to moderate to fresh WSW'ly soon veered into the W, so it was a winching day off runway 24, with15 flown. Hill, thermal and elusive wave lift were available, with the result that there were 10 flights in excess of 30 minute,s with 8 of these over an hour. Most of […] Read More...
Friday 3rd. The WSW'ly continued to blow, but had declined to become moderate to moderate to fresh so it was a full day's gliding at Sutton with 24 ATs off runway 24, including 9 by Private Owners and 3 for First Flight pupils. It was again a good wave day, with thermal and hill lift […] Read More...
Thursday 2nd. The passage of a weak front brought some early hours rain but left a breezy day with sunny periods, the WNW wind ranging from moderate to fresh to fresh. with gusts to 35 kts, The conditions limited flying to two winch launches off runway 24, Clive Swain in his Kestrel 19 taking off […] Read More...
Tuesday 30th. A light to moderate S'ly blew for most of the day, veering to become a light W'ly around 1700 hrs, just in time for the Tuesday evening group to restart operations following the cessation of flying by the day team around 1445 hrs after a launch total of 9 ATs off runway 20. […] Read More...
