Wednesday 9th. A sunny start did not last long as early Cumulus soon spreadout to cover the sky as a light to moderate NNW'ly slowly backed into the SSW over the course of the day. The changing wind conditions meant early operations off runway 02 were replaced by the use of runway 24 for take […] Read More...
Tuesday 8th. The moderate and at times moderate to fresh WSW'ly soon veered into the W, with the day's 13 winch launches and 2 Falke flights using runway 24. Hill lift was the basis for most flights, with thermal and, in a few cases, transient wave lift also used, although the best altitudes of the […] Read More...
Monday 6th. A moderate and occasionally moderate to fresh SW'ly blew all day with a medium/high overcast at times, the day's 2 winch launches topping and tailing 16 ATs which resulted in only 1 flight failing to exceed 30 minutes and 16 exceeding an hour. It was a wave day, with 15 flights climbing above […] Read More...
Sunday 6th. A light to moderate SSE'ly blew all day, with a short period of low cloud and rain late morning, which led to a break in flying of hours, giving way to a warm afternoon of sunny intervals. 16 ATs and 3 Falke flights left and returned to runway 20, with the Falke flights […] Read More...
Saturday 5th. The W'ly continued to blow, but had declined to become moderate on a day of sunny intervals, so the day's operations were off runway 24 with a mixture 14 winch launches and 12 ATs, 5 of the latter being for First Flight pupils. Cloud base reached around 4,500' asl with climb rates around […] Read More...
Friday 4th. A moderate to fresh W'ly blew all day so runway 24 was the location for the day's 10 winch launches. With reliable hill lift and wave available, only 1 flight failed to exceed 30 minutes, with 5 exceeding an hour, as 4 pilots of the 5 private owners who launched climbed to over […] Read More...
Thursday 3rd.. A moderate WSW'ly blew all day under generally cloudy skies, providing good hill lift, some thermal activity and wave for some, with a few isolated light showers first thing. The day's 17 winch launches off runway 24, including 7 for private owners, led to 15 flights of 30 minutes or more, with 10 […] Read More...
Wednesday 2nd. A day with bits and pieces of rain and drizzle, a moderate SW'ly that backed into the SSE and low cloud meant there was no flying. Read More...
Tuesday 1st. A moderate WSW'ly blew all day, sunny morning skies becoming increasingly cloudy. It was a good soaring day, with hill, thermal and wave lift available, although all the experiences of the latter were confined to the flights taking off before 1130 hours and initially, contacting the wave was difficult, with persistence required. In […] Read More...
Sunday 30th. A light to light to moderate S'ly blew all day under generally cloudy skies, thunderstorms bringing heavy rain to the area in the evening. Flying didn't get underway until 1200 hrs with the first of 6 ATs off runway 20, one of which was for visitors Burtenshaw/O'Flanagan in their Duo Discus t. Their […] Read More...
