Wednesday 19th. An E'ly blew all day, increasing from light to moderate to moderate to fresh, the higher wind speed leading to the abandonment of flying around midday due to the increasingly turbulent conditions on take off and landing on runway 06. The abandonment limited the day's AT total to 4, with only 1 of […] Read More...
Sunday 16th. A light to moderate SSE'ly blew all day, with broken cloud and thermals to start although the sky clouded over in the late afternoon. Operations were therefore off runway 20. Cloud base never exceeded the mid 3,000's and of the 9 flights to exceed 30 minutes flying time. of which 4 exceeded an […] Read More...
Wednesday 12th. The initially broken clouds soon merged and lowered to a low overcast, with rain falling from around 1400hrs for the rest of the flying day as a moderate to fresh S'ly slowly backed into the SE, so there was no flying. Thursday 13th. A moderate W'ly blew all day, but a lowering overcast […] Read More...
Tuesday 11th. A moderate W'ly initiallly brought sunny skies with Cumulus, but the skies slowly clouded in as the wind backed into the south, with rain from around 1700 hrs. Flying commenced just after 1000 hrs with a combination of 7 ATs and 9 winch launches leading to 8 flights of over 30 minutes, of […] Read More...
Saturday 8th. A light to moderate SSW''ly slowly backed into the SSE over the course of the day, thermal activity leading to generally cloudy skies. 18 ATs, initially off runway 24 but later off 20, led to 9 flights of over 30 minutes of which 8 were over an hour. 5 of these were for […] Read More...
Tuesday 4th. The light to moderate/moderate SSE'ly flow continued as the anticyclone started to decline, while the lowering inversion led to a day of unbroken sunshine and weak thermal activity that resulted in none of the day's ATs off runway 20 exceeding 26 minutes. Guy Hartland/Roger Taylor in the DG500 had that 26 minutes, while […] Read More...
Sunday 2nd. A developing anticyclone brought a day of light NNE'ly winds, warm sunshine and scattered Cumulus, with 26 ATs off runway 02, 14 of which resulted in flights of over 30 minutes, with 6 in excess of an hour although nobody went cross country. All three Astirs were flown and the 2 seater fleet […] Read More...
Friday 31st. A depression, slowly tracking eastwards over the southern part of the UK, kept the site in a moderate, cool and damp NNE'ly flow, the low overcast adding to the conditions that meant no flying. Saturday 1st April. The depression had tracked into the southern North Sea, with the wind now a moderate N'ly […] Read More...
Thursday 30th. A moderate WSW'ly that backed into the W provided good soaring conditions for a while via hill and wave lift, although contact with the latter required persistence and ICE assistance, while afternoon showers affected flying leading to a launch total of 8, one of which was by AT, the rest by winch. Clive […] Read More...
Tuesday 28th. A day of low cloud and rain as a moderate SSE'ly blew, meant there was no flying. Wednesday 29th. The moderate SSE'ly flow continued to bring in a low overcast with light rain/drizzle from early afternoon, so there was no flying. Read More...
