A great fun day. A blue start that improved dramatically once the thermals punched through the inversion. When I arrived Mike Crook was preping the Astir for a Silver duration attempt, whilst Wilko and Peter R were already rigged. Mick instructed some A/X flights in the K21 and later flew with Ratty in the Grob109. Jo Hoy was also out and Brian K. flew the tug.
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I decided to join in the task of the day with Pete and Wilko and we all went round the new "President's Triangle", then played about in the sea breeze front for a while. Once the inversion burst it was very good and we should really have gone further (2-300km was definately on) but the high crops and lack of landable fields meant I was satisfied with a quick(ish) 117km! I took off last, around 2:00pm BST. Cloud base eventually rose to 5,500ft and there was 4-6 knots in places, but some big sink too! Mike Crook was successful and got his 5 hours and Silver height (just distance to do now) - well done Mike!
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President's Triangle
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