Thursday 24th. A light to moderate NNW'ly blew all day with large patches of Altocumulus making cross country flying tricky at times. The launch total off runway 20 was 30 including 2 self launches, with 18 flights of 30 minutes or more and 10 of these over an hour. Although there were 19 launches by […] Read More...
Wednesday 23rd. A high pressure ridge extending from the north brought sunny intervals and large Cumulus, as a light to moderate NNW'ly blew all day. After an initial launch from runway 20, followed by a landing on 02, all the subsequent 25 ATs and a self launch were off 02, 20 of these flights lasting […] Read More...
Monday 21st A weak front brought low cloud in the morning and rain in the afternoon, the SSE'ly declining from moderate to light over the day, so there was no flying. Tuesday 22nd. A day with sunny intervals and a light to moderate SW'ly that brought in isolated showers resulted in a busy day, […] Read More...
Sunday 20th. A light to moderate ESE'ly blew all day accompanied by sunny intervals and scattered Cumulus, a combination that led to 41 ATs and 2 self launches off runway 20 as the YGC welcomed visitors from the London GC. 25 of the launches led to flights of over 30 minutes with 16 over an […] Read More...
Friday 18th. A moderate and at times moderate to fresh ESE'ly blew all day, a bright start soon disappearing as cloud cover increased with light rain setting in in the late afternoon. Flying was limited to 3 flights in teh morning, Bob Calvert taking 2 First Flight pupils for 20/21 minute flights off 3,000' tows […] Read More...
Wednesday 16h. A small low pressure tracking northwards up the west side of the UK brought a low overcast and a moderate to fresh and at times fresh SE'ly that veered into the SSW to site. In anticipation of this weather, Wednesday's flying was scrubbed on Tuesday. Thursday 17th. The departure of the low pressure […] Read More...
Monday 14th. The wind had become a moderate to fresh S'ly, with scattered Cumulus giving way at times to overcast skies, the conditions aloft being too turbulent for First Flight pupils. 13 ATs were flown off runway 20, with the 4 Private owners who launched, setting off on cross countries and each contributing to the […] Read More...
Saturday 12th. A weak front advancing from the SW slowly increased cloud cover after a sunny start to the day, the wind being a moderate SSE'ly. 17 ATs off runway 20 included one for a First Flight pupil and 3 for private owners, all the flying in club gliders being in either of the two […] Read More...
Thursday 10th. An initial low overcast soon burnt off, with the first AT off runway 20 launching around 1030 hrs into a light to moderate SSE'ly, to be followed by 14 more. The sunny conditions tempted 5 private owners to rig and launch, but the blue conditions and low inversion precluded any soaring flights, what […] Read More...
Wednesday 9th. The centre of the high pressure had slipped south-westwards, changing the wind direction to a N'ly and bringing in an overcast which limited ATs release heights, so operations were limited to 4 ATs of runway 02 and 2 Falke flights. The longest glider flight of the day was for one of the two […] Read More...
