Summer soaring fortnight - Day 1 Sat 25th July

A mixed day with some good cross country flights, and some who struggled. There appeared to be some wave influence causing strange mixing of thermals, combined with a stronger than forecast wind most who flew found the clouds were not working as expected. Still, with cloudbase at 4000ft and some thermal strengths reportedly 9knt who can complaint!

Pete Ryland won the day with a 330km flight in his DG to Sudbury, Silverstone. Well done also to Jenny completing the briefed task of TIB-RAT-SMB-TIB, Norman Clowes completed the extended task TIB-RAT-SMB-NOE-TIB but forgot to have his logger on. A number of outlandings included JRK, Mark Wright (who popped in for a cuppa at Rattlesden) and Dave Munro (who had a long aerotow retrieve from Sutton Meadows), both Tim H and Chris managed NMT return.

Thanks to Ray Hart for helping cover the airfield after we sent Tim D home for having flu! Also thanks to Paul Wilkinson who stepped in to help out with rather a lot of trial lessons, and all the other crew who pitched in running the airfeld, winch and tug.