Sunday 4th The anticyclone to the NW of the UK continued to feed cloud in off the North Sea on a light to moderate NNE'ly, the resulting overcast restricting ATs to less than 1500' QFE, for most of the day, with the highest, 1800' QFE off the last flight of the day. As a result, […] Read More...
Thursday 1st. Early light drizzle and a low overcast as a moderate NNE'ly continued to blow, kept the gliders in the hangar, the low overcast persisting for most of the day, . However, the cloud base rose sufficiently from late morning to allow the Falke to have 4 flights, most of which were for field […] Read More...
Tuesday 30th. The light to moderate wind continued to blow from the NNE and bring in an overcast, this being low enough to delay the start of flying until around 1130 hrs, but then rose sufficiently to allow normal AT release heights. The overcast tended to break up around 1500 hrs although reforming later. The […] Read More...
Sunday 28th. The light to moderate NNE'ly wind brought in a medium level overcast from the North Sea, which prevented any significant thermal activity, so there were no flights of over 30 minutes from the 19 ATs flown off runway 02, with some landings on runway 06. Some weak thermal activity mid-afternoon was utilised by […] Read More...
Thursday 25th. A sunny start lasted until late morning with Cumulus forming and then spreading out so that most of those attempting cross-countries returned to site by 1400 hrs. Operations were off runway 20 as a light to moderate SSE'ly blew with the day's launch total being 19, of which 13 were >30 minutes and […] Read More...
Tuesday 23rd. A light W'ly slowly increased to light to moderate with early blue skies becoming filled with Cumulus and also areas of medium level overcast that hindered convection. A very busy flying day saw operations commence off runway 24 at just after 1000 hrs and continue until 2109 hrs as the Tuesday evening group […] Read More...
Sunday 21st. A light ESE'ly slowly backed into the NNE and strengthened slightly, the initially cloudless sky producing some Cumulus during late morning to early afternoon before going blue. 38 ATs were flown off runway 20 with later, some landings on runways 02 and 06. the day producing 26 flights of 30 minutes or more […] Read More...
Saturday 20th. A light to moderate SSE'ly blew all day, with areas of Cumulus coming and going, providing something of a challenge to those attempting cross country tasks. Flying commenced off runway 20 around 10:20 hrs and ended around 17:20 hrs with 41 ATs flown. All the club 2 seaters, 3 of the 4 club […] Read More...
Thursday 18th. A light to moderate SSE'ly veered into the W around midday, with cloud amounts varying between overcast and broken, the day's 12 ATs being flown initially off runway 20 before switching to runway 24. The only flight of over 30 minutes was by visitor Malc Guard in his Ka6 who had 1:50, initially […] Read More...
Sunday 14th. After a murky start, the low cloud quickly disappeared, allowing flying to get going off runway 24 into a light to moderate W'ly, 23 ATs being the day's total. Seven private owners kept the launch point busy in the early afternoon, providing 7 of the day's 8 flights to exceed an hour, the […] Read More...
