Friday 23rd. Atlantic storm Lilian brought strong winds, low cloud and early morning rain that ceased around 0900 hrs thus delaying the start of flying until early afternoon, with 8 winch launches thereafter off runway 24 into a moderate WSW'ly. All but one of the day's launches exceeded 30 minutes, with 6 exceeding an hour, […] Read More...
Thursday 22nd. Showery rain and strong winds delayed the start of flying until the early afternoon, by which time the WSW'ly had become moderate to fresh, so it was again a winching day off runway 24. Only 5 launches resulted, but all recorded flight times of over an hour, ranging from Bob Johnson/Jim Pirera's 1:26 […] Read More...
August 21st. The moderate WSW'ly continued to blow, so it was another day of winching off runway 24 with 21 launches leading to 11 flights of 30 minutes or more with 7 of these over an hour. Increasingly cloudy skies progressively limited thermal activity, but hill and wave lift provided soaring opportunities with 2 good […] Read More...
Tuesday 20th. A moderate WSW'ly brought a day of hill, thermal and wave lift with the 36 winch launches off runway 24 giving 32 flights of 30 minutes or more with 18 of these over an hour. A 30 kt wind at flying height limited XC kms, but 8 XCs were flown and 4 high […] Read More...
Saturday 17th. A light to moderate WSW'ly blew all day, early sunny skies progressively clouding over with the result that any soaring was done before early afternoon and XC's were limited in number and distance, although cloud base reached around 4,500' asl and best average thermal strengths were around 4,5kts during the soaring period. 21 […] Read More...
Wednesday 14th. A light to moderate, initially N'ly, soon settled into the SSW and with sunny skies, albeit with some high cover at times, Cumulus soon developed leading to a reasonable soaring day with cloud base around 4,500 - 5,000'asl and best average climb rates around 3 kts. 12 of the day's 19 launches off […] Read More...
Sunday 11th. Early Cumulus soon disappeared to leave clear blue skies as a light to moderate SSE'ly blew. 17 launches were flown off runway 20 with 10 flights of over 30 minutes resulting, 6 of whom were over an hour. Rob Bailey put his 256 km flight around Sutton, Tontine, York E, Masham, Garsdale […] Read More...
Friday 9th. A moderate W'ly with eventually broken cloud brought a day with thermal, hill and wave lift, the latter being used for some long wave flights, while good climbs and long durations were the order of the day. Dean Crosby in his LS10t flew a declared 572.1 km flight starting at Ripon, with TPs […] Read More...
Thursday 8th. A cloudy day with a relatively low cloud base led to rain from 4pm, the wind initially being a light to moderate SSW'ly before backing into the SSE. The conditions did not encourage anyone to fly, although the Falke had a single sortie and the club welcomed Chris Gill/Simon Grice in their Arcus […] Read More...
Tuesday 6th. Early hours rain from a weakening cold front that departed to the SE left the site in an unstable and cooler air mass as a light to moderate WSW'ly blew. Good thermal conditions locally led to 2 XC flights posted on the ladder with a further 4 XCs flown, with the day's 36 […] Read More...
