Thursday: Andy Parish led the briefing for both club members and the Slingsby attendees suggesting that the day would be soarable but showers might stop play at times. Early starters were the club K21s with instructional flights. Will flew the first of the days trial lessonists. Father and son Newberys disappeared in their DG1000T for […] Read More...
Wednesday: After Andy's briefing Justin Wills and Mike Armstrong were awarded bottles of wine for their exploits the previous day and each gave a resume of their impressions of the "rival" gliders they flew. It was interesting to hear that both of them found the machine they flew had much in common with their own […] Read More...
Morning briefing suggested that the weather for the day would be "ordinary" in soaring terms with the overcast perhaps breaking to give some convection during the afternoon. Given the hectic days flying on Monday all the YGC crew who had helped to keep the queues moving were thanked. The ground operation had been slick all […] Read More...
Sunday: Almost ideal conditions were forecast for the first day of the Slingsby Week Rally. Very light winds from the south with gentle thermal activity generated 60 launches in the day, about a third of which were by vintage gliders. Conditions were not inviting for x/c flying, even for the white plastic gliders, so the […] Read More...
Saturday 26th. A light SSW'ly was initially accompanied by blue skies, but these soon filled with cloud that produced some light showers and meant the morning's launches off runway 20 were not blessed with any soaring opportunities. However, conditions improved markedly after lunch with nice looking Cu dotted about the sky, the wind having veered into […] Read More...
Friday 25th. The depression to the north of Ireland was still in place feeding a light to moderate, cloudy, SSW'ly flow over the north of England resulting in moderate soaring conditions for the Task Week pilots. They were set the same task as on Thursday, to complete as many triangles as possible out of a […] Read More...
Thursday 24th. A light to moderate SW'ly blew all day, being accompanied by extensive cloud and a few showers that interfered with flying late morning. Conditions slowly improved in the early afternoon with the hill working at low level and some convective activity late afternoon to interest those on the ground. The Task Week competitors […] Read More...
Wednesday 23rd. A slow moving but very active cold front brought some torrential downpours to the local area in the morning and meant that the day was scrubbed as far as the Task Week competitors and club flying were concerned. However, a gliding based quiz kept the Task Week entrants engaged until lunch time. Conditions […] Read More...
Tuesday 22nd. A passing warm front crossed the site leaving it in a humid air mass, the remnants of Hurricane GERT. The result was low cloud sitting on the hill, this not clearing until around lunch time with little prospect of any soaring opportunities during the rest of the day. Consequently, the day was scrubbed […] Read More...
Monday 21st. An unpromising sky greeted the Task Week entrants as a high overcast stretched from horizon to horizon, however, after presenting John Ellis with his day winner award from Sunday, the eager competitors were presented with a task to fly to as many BGA TP's as possible within four 90 degree sectors centred on […] Read More...
