Saturday 25th to Sunday 26th January 2025

Posted: 26/01/2025 21:35

Saturday 25th. A sunny morning with a light to moderate WSW'ly blowing led to 28 winch launches off runway 24 and one AT, with 19 flights exceeding 30 minutes and 8 over an hour.  The recorded > an hour flights ranged  from Sam Bachelor's 2:17 in Astir DSU, closely followed by Chris Booker's 2:11 in his LS1, to Adam Sayer's 1:00 in DSU, with Astir pilots making up the remaining > an hour flights.  Rob Bailey had 1:09 in FSH, Steve Thompson had 2 flights  in Astir DPO of 1:01 and 1:02, while Austin Harland in DPO and John Forrester, also in DPO, had 1:02 each, with John later having 51 minutes in FSH.  Clive Swain/Yuri Kozheurov in K21 JVZ  had the longest 2 seater flight of the day, 59 minutes.  Sarah Stubbs took the only First Flight pupil  of the day for a 39 minute flight in K21 KLW off the day's only AT.  The assumed means of defeating gravity was via hill lift as I have no information regarding the presence of any wave.

Sunday 26th.  Although the day started off clear with early morning frost , the skies soon clouded over as Storm Herminia, centred to the W of Ireland,  brought in lowering cloud, rain from midday and strengthening SE'ly winds that gusted up to 36 kts so  there was no flying.  

This blog describes a snippet of life at the Yorkshire Gliding Club. Why not take a flight and try it yourself, or we can teach you to fly as a full club member.

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