Friday 29th. A moderate, and a times, moderate to fresh WSW/W'ly blew all day with the day's 27 launches split into 10 AT, 15 winch and 2 self launches, all off runway 24. The day provided thermal, hill and wave soaring, with 8 pilots climbing over 5,000' asl and 7 over 9,000' asl, all but […] Read More...
Thursday 28th. Two bands of thunderstorms crossed the area in the morning, the second mid-morning spell of thundery weather delaying the start of flying until around 1300 hrs, by which time the weather had cleared to sunny skies with a moderate SE/ESE'y wind. There was little in the way of useable lift, so the day's […] Read More...
Wednesday 27th. A morning of mid level cloud led to an afternoon of increasingly blue skies as a moderate ENE/ESE'ly blew. Wind direction caused the launch point to change from initial operation off runway 02 to 20 and eventually to 06, with all three runways used for landing. A lack of lift meant it was […] Read More...
Monday 25th. Monday dawned blue and became hot, with a maximum local temperature of 31C, the anticyclonic conditions also giving rise to a light to moderate SSE'ly that slowly veered into the SSW. The day's 17 ATs off runway 20 led mainly to extended circuits with 6 flights of 30 minutes or more of which […] Read More...
Friday 22nd. A moderate S/SSW'ly blew all day, with plenty of sunshine and a high of around 26C, so the launch point being busy all day from around 1030 hrs to 1815 hrs with 46 ATs off runway 20, 18 by private owners, and a single Falke flight. Thermal conditions were generally weak to moderate […] Read More...
Monday 18th. A light to moderate SSE'ly blew all day with some isolated heavy showers in the afternoon and some patchy thermal conditions, the best providing cloud base at around 4,000' asl and peak average climb rates around 4 kts. In the event, only 6 of the day's 20 ATs off runway 20 led to […] Read More...
Wednesday 13th. A moderate NNW'ly that veered into the N brought in frequent, heavy showers so there was no flying. Thursday 14th. The N'ly wind continued to blow, slowly declining from moderate to light with showers, heavy in the afternoon, restricting flying to 6 ATs off runway 02 between 1030 - 1430 hrs All the […] Read More...
Sunday 10th. The passage of the cold front left the site in a good airmass, with cloudbase rising over 5,000' asl and peak average thermal strengths around 5 kts. Consequently it was a busy day at site with 36 ATs off runway 02, including 13 XCs and a number of Falke flights. XC's varied in […] Read More...
Wednesday 6th. A reasonable day's soaring with 14 of the day's 18 ATs giving rise to flights of over 30 minutes with 4 of these over an hour. The > an hour pilots were Neil Paverley with 3:57 in his Nimbus 2, Fred Brown in his Ventus 2ct, 2:03, Rob Bailey in his ASG29t , […] Read More...
Monday 4th. For various reasons I have not had access to daily log sheets this week so the following reports will be less comprehensive than usual. A light SSE'ly blew so operations were off runway 20. The visitors who flew in on Saturday set off on the next stage of their round Britain journey with […] Read More...
