Another good soaring day was forecast, and 30 flights took place, with two private owners flying. Will got the ball rolling just after 10 o'clock with a "mile high" trial flight, and paid his way with a total of 6 flights, of which 3 were mile high! Graham Taylor had a couple of check flights […] Read More...
The weather on Monday was not suitable for flying, and all the aircraft stayed under cover. This meant an unfortunate and uneventful start for the members and instructors who had arrived for the week long gliding course. Tuesday 11th promised to be a repeat of Monday, but the weather forecast was consistent in its prediction […] Read More...
The early conditions featured some low cloud, but with a few gaps, so a late start at 10:50 saw John Carter and Mark Newburn making an exploratory tow in KLW (K21) and becoming the only pilots of the day to experience wave in their flight of 46 minutes. It's there if you look for it, as […] Read More...
Of the forty six launches twenty five were by private owners, one of whom self-launched. Flying started at 09:46 and ended with the last landing at 18:00 (precisely!). Conditions cycled between scattered smallish cumulus, blue, and blue but with top-cover, which may explain some short flights in the club two-seaters. However, conditions away from the […] Read More...
A slightly better day in Yorkshire! There were twenty flights, two of which were self-launches by John Ellis in his DG808C, the other seventeen were aerotows, three of which were by private owners. Steve Thompson looked after Andrew Rigby, who as a day-course member had three flights in a K21 and clocked up just over […] Read More...
The morning started with fog - visibility was down to 50 yards - but the local forecast was of a clearance later in the morning, so a keen lookout was kept for signs of improvement, and hangar-unpacking got underway at 11:30. With a light sou'westerly the Eurofox was used along 20. The two K21s and […] Read More...
The day started with light winds and low clouds, and continued in this vein until just before 6pm, thereby delaying any club flying. An afternoon session for a group of Womens Institute members from West Yorkshire was also delayed, but the WI had their planned on-site, post-flight, meal somewhat earlier, and aerotowing started at 18:03, […] Read More...
Monday 3rd: The day took a while to get going but eventually it turned out to be a decent thermal soaring day. John Ellis was the exception to the thermallers using a cloud climb to 5000ft which was high enough to contact wave (again!) W of the A1. His TP's included Gardale Head and Kirkby […] Read More...
An optimistic briefing anticipated a good soaring day with wave. Thermals and hill lift were sometimes unpredictable and difficult to use so wave contact was not always easy. Most launches were by aerotow (27) but 11 pilots used the winch with most eventually getting away. All four 2-seaters were in demand with several of these […] Read More...
Saturday 1st. A temporary ridge between two cold fronts promised, and delivered, a nice soaring day. Derek and Morag Jones, very experienced aviators from Norfolk, stayed on after their weeks course and were rewarded by a number of gliding opportunities. After a couple of short chk flights Morag had three solo flights in K21 KLW, […] Read More...
