Tuesday 24th. With the anticyclone still in place over the UK not much changed weather wise, the wind remaining light from the N/NE and bringing extensive cloud that was low enough to delay the start of flying until 1435 hrs. Thereafter, the day team flew 6 launches before the Tuesday evening team added a further […] Read More...
Monday 23rd. An anticyclone over the UK brought a day of sunny periods, a light NE'ly wind and convection, resulting in 7 soaring flights out of the 22 flown off runway 02. The longest flight by far, 3:46, sawBill Payton fly his DG1000 solo around a 187 km task, with TPs at Goole NE, Pontefract […] Read More...
Friday 21st. The sequence of non-soaring/soaring days came to a halt on Friday as a cloudy light S/SSE'ly airflow restricted soaring opportunities although not preventing flying. Consequently, the wasn't a task set for the Task Week competitors so the day's flying was club based, although John Marsh flew his DG303 for 1:12, the longest of […] Read More...
Wednesday 19th. My suggestion of the winner of Day 1 of Task Week turned out to be correct with Andrew Cluskey claiming top spot, with Fred Brown 2nd. John Ellis 3rd and Toby Wilson 4th. After a non contest day on Tuesday, the weather on Wednesday as a light to moderate W'ly blew was more […] Read More...
Monday 16th. A southward travelling, weak cold front brought a low overcast but this cleared late morning allowing both flying to commence off runway 24 into a light NW'ly around midday and the first real task of YGC's Task Week to be set. 4 pilots undertook the task and while I haven't access to the […] Read More...
Saturday 14th. A light to moderate and at times moderate W'ly meant it was a day of mixed launch methods with 6 intial ATs off runway 24 changing to winching with 13 flown, and later, as the wind speed dropped, reverting to ATing with 6 flown. In addition there were 2 self launches. The day, […] Read More...
Friday 13th. A moderate to fresh WSW'ly resulted in a winch day with consistent hill lift and thermal and wave as well, a few isolated showers missing the site. As a result 37 launches were flown off runway 24, with 27 flights exceeding 30 minutes and 11 an hour. The promising conditions led to 12 […] Read More...
Thursday 12th. A light S'ly flow slowly veered into the SW and strengthened to light to moderate, providing a day of variable soaring including wave. 35 ATs were flown, all but the last two off runway 20 before operations were changed to runway 24. 9 private owners flew with the majority setting off on cross […] Read More...
Wednesday 11th. A southeasterly travelling, weak cold front brought a lot of cloud and a few drops of rain during the day, but didn't prevent 23 ATs being flown off runway 20 into a light to moderate S'ly wind. The cloud base didn't restrict flying but its cover and thickness did adversely affect any chance […] Read More...
Monday 9th. After 3 days of little activity, Monday's forecast promised a much better day and so it turned out. A moderate WSW/W'ly blew all day with Cumulus appearing relatively early, the forecast encouraging 9 private owners to rig and fly, with some notable cross countries flown. Some overdevelopment occured with some recycling of good […] Read More...
