Wednesday 25th to Thursday 26th February 2026
Posted: 27/02/2026 17:26
Wednesday 25th. A moderate and warm day, with hazy sunshine at times, provided some soaring in hill and wave, with 4 of the day's 12 ATs off runway 20 leading to flights of over 30 minutes, with 2 of these over an hour. Fred Brown, flying his Ventus 2t had the longest flight, 2:11, finding wave and climbing to 5,800' asl 8 km to the E of Easingwold before returning to site and then to Knayton and then landing back. Tony Drury flying K21 KLW solo, was the other > an hour pilot, his 1:23 being the result of wave augmented hill lift while soaring the S'ly ridge at 1,100' to 2,000' QFE between site and Ampleforth. Clive Swain/Marian Stanley in K21 JVZ had 39 minutes and Guy Hartland/Neil Amos in KLW had 49 minutes, with Clive/Marian soaring the S'ly ridge between Wass and Ampleforth while slowly descending from their launch height and Guy/Neil maintaining 1,200' QFE in-between the White Horse and Wass.
Thursday 26th. The moderate to moderate to fresh SSW'ly was accompanied by a low overcast and some light rain/drizzle to there was no flying.
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