Monday, 2 March 2009

Best Day of the Year So Far

Keith Springate (visiting from Burn GC) and I made good use of the best soaring so far this year.
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Flying the Grob 109 for 2 hours we briefly explored the local area before turning the engine off to soar in thermals of up to 3 knots for almost an hour. Cloudbase was around 3500ft with well defined streets. The thermals started to die after 3:00pm, so we restarted the engine and completed a field landing refresher before landing back at Tibenham.
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Considering the excellent weather it was just a shame that more people couldn't get to the club to enjoy it today. Wednesday still looks promising at the moment so hopefully we'll get more soaring.
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The BGA ladder shows lots of X/C flights, several of 200km plus: http://www.bgaladder.co.uk/Enquiry.asp
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Don't miss the next good day.
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