Ready to go!..
Andy V and Jan A ran the day and provided instruction to many, including cadets Pete C and Beth R who both managed some decent soaring. Mike T clocked up an hour with Jan in T12 and made some headway towards his AFR. New members Paul G and Steve C were also out. Worzel, Jim L and Jonathan manned the tug.
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Rougham/Bury
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It was a busy day with the whole club fleet out as well as a number of private gliders. For a while some top-cover threatened to spoil the day, but most managed to battle through the cycle and it eventually popped big-time with 5kts+ seen in places. The wind backed from NW to SW'ly and I think some shear wave helped to create a few hot-spots with cloudbase climbing to around 4000ft by 3pm!
It was a busy day with the whole club fleet out as well as a number of private gliders. For a while some top-cover threatened to spoil the day, but most managed to battle through the cycle and it eventually popped big-time with 5kts+ seen in places. The wind backed from NW to SW'ly and I think some shear wave helped to create a few hot-spots with cloudbase climbing to around 4000ft by 3pm!
Norwich FC...
There were some very respectable times achieved, and I think 5 hours soaring was possible. Geoff and Art pilfered a 2-seater for an hours mutual flying. Jim C achieved 2 hours plus in a club Astir for his XC Endorsement leg. Will flew 'Woodsock' for two and a half hours, Steve F-H clocked up 3:30 in '20' whilst Ben M flew 3:35 for the longest flight of the day in his Libelle. Des blew the cobwebs out of his LS4, forcing syndicate partner Dave T to take the other club Astir XC for a 120km+ flight round PIC-NOE-DIS whilst I set off collecting TPs and also clocked up 120km+ working my way round DIS-HTN-ROU-GRF-NWI-NOE (too many for the ladder claim)! You can see more at: http://www.bgaladder.co.uk/ - Why not put your flights on the ladder and make this year even more successful than 2009...and help protect our airspace?
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