A tricky day XC A good turnout for mid week with 4 trial lessons and quite a few members getting check flights or training from Mike Codd and Martin Watt together with a few visiting pilots as well. It was also nice to see Martin Brockington back tugging after his “eventful” trip to Kosovo –…
Bidford O/R The forecast was for an unstable SW airstream with possible showers, drying out as the day progressed. There were only a dozen or so intrepid aviators at briefing with a few people away elsewhere. The SW ridges were working well with dynamic lift and thermal to a base of about 4000′ QNH initially. …
Unexpected wave to 7200 RASP indicated that wave was unlikely: No inversion (actually quite a high lapse rate) and wind veering markedly with height. However after morning tea (how civilised!) our eagle-eyed tug pilot Tony Crowden spotted an edge in the clouds in the lee of the Black Mountains overhead the Wye Valley. So off…
Another great day out! Lovely warm weather with little wind – now that doesn’t sound like Tal does it? Heavy inversion at first meant very poor viz and weak thermals to about 3500 amsl with only small haze caps. We’d set a task to New town, Llandeilo and back for 200km but it soon became…
A great day out… I’ll have to give this report from my perspective because I was in the air for nearly 6 hrs and so don’t really know what else was going on. We set ourselves one of the club tasks (see the ladder for the whole list) of Llandeilo -Mynd and back for a…
NE wave 9000 ft The forecast brisk NE wind made conditions on the field a bit sporting!!! During the morning, Cu bubbled up nicely with no sign of the cursed wave – Hoorah! The forecast also predicted cloud increase by Midday. I took the second launch onto Troed in my recently returned, refinished and fettled…