Wednesday 5th July 2023
Posted: 08/07/2023 09:23
Wednesday 5th. After a bright start it clouded in as the Cumulus spread out, but thermals still formed to augment the hill soaring, as a moderate WNW'ly slowly backed into the WSW. The day's 18 ATs off runway 24 comprised 13 in 3 of the club's two seaters and 5 by private owners, the latter group providing 4 of the 5 flights to exceed an hour and 1 of the 5 flights to have between 30 and 60 minutes. The one > an hour flight in a club glider saw Clive Swain/Dean Crosby have 1:04 in K21 JVZ, operating mainly between 1,100' & 1,700' QFE using a mixture of hill and thermal lift with a best height of 2,000' asl. The 5 private owners had durations of between 59 minutes and 4:27, mainly via local soaring, but Bob Calvert in his Discus 2ct, Martyn Johnson in his DG600 and Rob Bailey in his ASG29t all visited Tontine and Martyn also flew just to the north of Northallerton. Bob and Martyn also dallied with some weak wave over Gormire. Best altitudes were just under 5,000' asl, with Bob climbing to 4,300', Martyn to 4,700' and Rob to 4,800', all asl with best average climb rates of between 2,5 and 3.0 kts. Clive Swain/Steve Morgan had a trip to High Paradise Farm during their 48 minute flight in JVZ, while Bruce Grain/Tim Stanley had 50 minutes in K21 KLW off the last flight of the day, hill soaring the main bowl at 1.000' yo 1400' QFE using a combination of hill and thermal lift.
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