Saturday 21st. A thundery afternoon was forecast, as a cold front made eastwards progress across the UK. In the event it clouded in as a moderate SSE'ly blew, but the rain that fell in the afternoon was very light, although the day turned quite gloomy and threatening. The day's flying commenced at 1030 hrs when […] Read More...
Friday 20th. A hot and humid, moderate SSE'ly flow brought a maximum temperature of 29,2C in Thirsk, but didn't do much for soaring opportunities under an overcast sky with isolated ragged Cumulus underneath. The day's 20 ATs and a self launch off runway 20 only led to 4 flights of 30 minutes or more, although […] Read More...
Wednesday 18th. A light to moderate W'ly blew all day, the 28 ATs and 1 self launch off runway 24 including 4 for First Flight Pupils and the departure of visitor Henry Ellingham from Pocklington, who had landed earlier in his Pegase from there. A cloud base of around 5,000' asl, average peak thermal strengths […] Read More...
Monday 16th. The moderate WSW'ly continued to blow, bringing another day of hill, thermal and wave lift, the day's 18 ATs, including 4 for First Flight pupils, resulting in 16 flights over 30 minutes of which 9 exceeded an hour, 3 of the latter being in club aircraft. 6 flights contacted wave, with peak altitudes […] Read More...
Friday 13th. A moderate SSW'ly slowly declined to light to moderate on a sunny day with isolated medium cloud and a thin high cover, the temperature in Topcliffe peaking at 25C. Soaring via hill, thermal and blue wave resulted in 19 of the day's 25 ATs off runway 20 exceeding 30 minutes with 13 over […] Read More...
Tuesday 10th. A moderate to fresh WNW'ly slowly declined in strength to become light to moderate on a day with good Cumulus, the wind strenght initially delaying the start of flying until 1300 hrs, but the good soaring conditions then allowing a couple of 300's to be flown. Operations were off runway 24, the day's […] Read More...
Monday 9th. A weak low pressure slowly travelling south across the UK brought an overcast day, but with a cloud base high enough for flying to occur. Operations were initially off runway 20, but with the wind becoming a light to moderate WSW, the rest of the day's 15 ATs were flown off runway 24. […] Read More...
Saturday 7th. A forecast of heavy showers and the risk of thunderstorms led to the day being scrubbed. Sunday 8th. A moderate W'ly blew all day, the skies remaining generally cloudy with a few showers, although these did not affect flying too much. The day's operations comprised 7 AT's and 8 winch launches off runway […] Read More...
Thursday 5th. A light to moderate S'ly slowly veered into the SW, bringing a cloudy day with light rain at times, with flying restricted to 3 flights in a 1 hour period in the early afternoon, one by Malcolm Guard in his Astir CS and the other 2 in K21 JVZ. In spite of 3,000' […] Read More...
Wednesday 4th. The WSW'ly wind had increased in strength to moderate to fresh with 30 kt gusts, so it was again a winching day, with 19 launches off runway 24 that led to 12 flights of over 30 minutes, 11 of these being over an hour, with 7 over 2 hours. In addition to hill […] Read More...
