Sunday, 22 March 2009

Blustery but Bright Sunday

A very bright and windy Sunday eventually saw soaring flights of over an hour for George B'ski. Will Day, John Kinley and Geoff T & Barry Marcham. Not to be left out, I shook the cobwebs off my Cirrus and after a shakedown and trial flight following winter maintenance, managed over an hour myself. Conditions not ideal for XC with 21kts of wind at 2k and launching off 33 meant an interesting approach with the trees providing plenty of curl-over. At least the vis was much better than the previous 2 days.
Andy Vidion ran the day with help from Ben Mangnani and Jonathan A. Thanks to Paul Thompson and his wife for providing the catering.
Others out were, Grum Ashworth, Mark Wright, James Francis Andrew Hewitt
, Mike Tate and Pete C.