With our Pawnee off-line, and the Super Cub away for its inspection, towing duties fell to our Eurofox. The conditions were not kind! It was a north-westerly day at Sutton Bank, and north-westerlies are not our favourite wind direction, owing to the likelihood of the wind causing rotor over the airfield during the launching phase, […] Read More...
Monday 7th. All nineteen aerotows were performed by the Super Cub, prior to its visit to Bagby for its 150-hoiurs check in readiness for its duties at the YGC Northerns next week and the Pocklington two-seater competition the week after. The longest club two-seater flight was by J. Norman and M. Bolton in the […] Read More...
There were twenty nine aerotows performed by the Super Cub and the Eurofox, and of these five were trial lessons. Most of the club two-seater flights were of about half-hour duration, the longest being Dick Cole and Mike Collins in the DG1000 (50 minutes).. None of the club single-seater fleet was flown. There were […] Read More...
The day lived up to the briefing forecast. Early Cu gave good lift with cloud base rising quite quickly but the instability always threatened showers in the local area and further afield. These curtailed some of the more optimistic declarations but overall it was one of the better days in what has been a disappointing […] Read More...
The metoffice forecast promised the after-effects of some occluded fronts with amounts of cloud but no rain. A westerly wind of ridge-soaring strength ensued, and although no significant wave was forecast either in the "215" or by RASP, wave bars were obvious both to the west and the east. Much like yesterday, then! Flying operations […] Read More...
10:57 Waiting for the rain to stop before the wind veers from southerly to westerly and we all go winching! 12:22 Patience rewarded. Flying started! All twelve launches of club aircraft were by winch, as the wind had veered into a WSW and was gusting over thirty knots with an underlying strength at 15-20 knots. […] Read More...
Flying started at 10:46 and finished at 12:33; well, it is summer! The weather was not good enough to fly any trial lessons, and there were only four flights in K21 JVZ. It would be too embarrassing to mention how "long" the longest flight was! CT Read More...
August has arrived, and with it the last third of the British Summer! It was a day of forecasted showers, many of which duly arrived some of them very heavy, with people resorting to whatever shelter they could find, be it in a glider, a tug, or the launch point van! However, there were twenty-three […] Read More...
A day of frequent, and sometimes heavy showers, saw twelve flights in club aircraft only. The longest flight for a club two-seater was 36 mionutes, by John Taylor and Ken Duxbery. Alan Beaumont and KRN took the honours for the single-seaters with 52 minutes, closely followed by Toby Wilson in the other Astir at […] Read More...
We started the day expecting significant rain showers with possible some thunder clouds later on, but it proved to be less dramatic than forecast, although we did receive 5mm of the wet stuff in several heavy showers. Unfortunately, the DG500 suffered a puncture that was not repairable today, but despite this the three other […] Read More...
