Wednesday 25th to Thursday 26th March 2026
Posted: 27/03/2026 16:50
Wednesday 25th. The passage of an active cold front left the site in an unstable, fresh/fresh to strong WNW'ly with occasional heavy rain and hail showers, so there was no flying.
Thursday 26th. A transient ridge of high pressure produced good soaring conditions with a 6,000' asl cloudbase and strong thermals, but this didn't last long as an approaching front led to complete cloud cover by early afternoon. Nevertheless, the day's 12 ATs off runway 24 led to 8 flights of 30 minutes or more with 6 of these being over an hour and some XC's flown. The longest of the XC's was flown by Dean Crosby in his LS10t, with a 301 km task of Sutton/Bottesford/Market Weighton/Sutton. Initially under strong thermal based soaring conditions, the later part of the flight was conducted under 8/8 ths cover using embedded Cumulus. Fred Brown in his Ventus 2ct, on his 1st thermal based XC of the year turned Market Weighton/ Knaresborough to cover 132 OLC km, while Rob Bailey in his ASG29 t flew 178 OLC km, initially flying to Northallerton and Tontine, then a spell of local soaring before visiting York East and returning to Sutton, where another spell of local soaring was followed by an O/R to Tontine. Bas Sonneveld on his 2nd flight of the day in his LS4, had 2:30 flying locally, and the other locally soaring, > and hour pilots were Austin Harland in Astir DSU, 1:13 and Chris Teagle in his LS8-18t with 1:08 on the last flight of the day under the 8/8th overcast. The longest of the flights in club 2 seaters were by Andreas Rieder in K21 JVZ who took the only First Flight pupil of the day for 30 minutes off the first flight of the day, flying the same time later in the same glider, but with Duncan Pask as P2.
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