Summer Soaring Fortnight - Day 10

An unexpectedly good forecast for the East allowed for another days good soaring, though the best weather seemed to be confined to Norfolk.
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Paul Woodcock had most success soaring in his Pegase for over 5 hours to complete his Silver, whilst Mike Crook had some good soaring in a club Astir. With the weather getting poorer as you pushed West Tony G fell back from a 300km task to complete NMT-MEN-BSE for 160km and I abandoned my ideas of pushing past Cambridge and turned back at CAM to explore Norfolk and Suffolk. Having gone round Bungay and Norwich East I turned South for Claydon to lengthen the task out to 275km, but I couldn't quite get to the TP. Then the sky collapsed in Essex and Suffolk and my final glide fell apart so I landed in a large stubble field South of Diss for 227km. Jan retrieved me and we went for an excellent meal at a nearby pub.

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. ....Tony's Task

Fred Hill (from Nympsfield) continued to explore Norfolk flying out to the East coast then right round to Kings Lynn and back to TIB in just over five and a half hours. Mark W flew his 27 for 3hrs 29. Simon Urry (Mosquito) and Phil Hayward (DG) managed to get here after lunch and had, respectively, 2hrs 35 and 3 hrs 19.

..... De-rigging in the farmyard next to the field - ideal!

Only 9 flights but the average flight-time was 3hrs & 27mins. Just a pity more pilots couldn't get out and enjoy the good soaring.