Thursday 29th to Saturday 31st July 2021
Posted: 06/08/2021 19:41
Thursday 29th. A moderate/moderate to fresh W'ly meant it was a winching day, with 27 flown off runway 24, including 5 by private owners. The majority of flights took advantage of hill lift with a few utilising some weak wave, with 23 of the day's 27 flights exceeding 30 minutes and 9 exceeding an hour. Jesper Mjels in his DG400 had just over 4 hours, utilising weak wave and getting to the west of Ripon with a peak altitude of 5,400' asl. Bill Payton had 2 flights in his DG 1000, first with Paul Bulmer and the second with Dave McKinney, both over 2 hours. Bill visited the Tontine and Guisborough West although with whom I am not certain. The Club Discus also utilised hill lift to get to Osmotherly but with 3 flights in the day by Ron Beezer, Chris Knapp and Conrad Thwaites of between 47 minutes and 1:37, the available data does not permit identification of the Osmotherly bound pilot, so I will have to leave it to you to make your own prediction. Flights of over an hour were split 5/4 to the advantage of private owners, but with Ron Beezer and Chris Knapp's efforts in the Discus, Clive Swain/Rowan Newill in K21 JVZ, with exactly an hour and Ron Beezer/Charlie Atkins in the same glider with 1:10 made sure two seaters were fully represented.
Friday 30th. A day of low cloud and rain, 9.0 mm falling after lunch, meant it was a no flying day.
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