Sunday 13th to Wednesday 15th. With a change to a mild airmass from between the SE to the SW, the snow slowly melted and was gone by Tuesday, leaving a very wet airfield that prevented flying on Wednesday. Thursday 16th. A light to moderate SE'ly blew, the skies were clear and sunny and flying took […] Read More...
Thursday 9th to Saturday 11th. S'no change in the condition of the airfield - so no flying, but thanks to those who cleared the car park and provided gritted paths thus allowing those who braved the icy access road off the A170 to meet and enjoy the YCC Christmas party organised by Kelly, with food […] Read More...
Wednesday 8th. The light winds and clear skies meant severe overnight frost and the maximum daytime temperature struggling to get above zero o C, so the snow remained crisp and deep and even preventing any flying. Read More...
Monday 6th. With a thick layer of snow on the airfield there was no flying as the moderate NW'ly slowly declined to light. Photos of the airfield are shown below. Tuesday 7th. With a hard overnight frost, there was little change in the snow depth covering on the airfield, as the photo shows, so […] Read More...
Sunday 4th. A forecast of heavy, overnight snow, low cloud and strong E'ly winds led to the day being scrubbed on Saturday and the forecast was correct with snow starting around 2300 hrs and continuing well into Sunday. With an unflyable day forecast for Monday due to a strong NW'ly, low cloud and a mixture […] Read More...
Thursday 2nd. Another sunny, blue sky day but with the airfield still wet, flying was limited to a single Flake flight, Bruce Grain/Harris Hobson 38 minute flight being local and including a couple of touch and go landings. Friday 3rd. A light WNW'ly blew all day under blue skies and, with the airfield operational with […] Read More...
Tuesday 31st. A moderate to fresh WSW'ly blew all day gusting into the high30 kts, as a cold front approached from the north, the cloud base slowly lowering, with rain from 1700 hrs, justifying the previous day's decision to scrub flying. Wednesday 1st. Tuesday's rain continued into Wednesday morning with skies clearing around midday, the […] Read More...
Monday 30th. Although the day was bright with generally high cloud, the moderate to fresh WSW'ly proved to be too strong and gusty for flying to continue after John Carter/Ian McFarlane had a winch launched, 13 minute, weather check flight in K21 KLW. So that concluded flying at Sutton for 2024 as a forecast of […] Read More...
Saturday 28th. Another day with fog in the valleys surrounding the site as a light SE'ly blew. The fog showed signs of lifting into low cloud with a few sunny intervals developing, but none of these were long enough to permit any flying. Sunday 29th. A moderate and at times gusty WSW'ly blew all day […] Read More...
Monday 23rd. A light to moderate WNW'ly slowly backed into the SW with the day's 11 ATs shared between K21 KLW and Astir DSU, Martin Newbery's 32 minutes in DSU being the longest of the day and the only flight over 30 minutes. The next best was John Forrester's 20 minutes in the same glider, […] Read More...
