The weekday operation of the club is proving to be a bonus, as it is allowing quite a few members to fly on those good soaring days which don't happen to line up with weekends.
Wednesday was a classic fair-weather clouds day, at least near Tibenham, once it got going, around 12:00 BST. Cloud bases from 5,000', from around 13:00. Wind from SSW, 8-14Kts.
Ben H got his new LS4 out and gained his silver distance with TIB-ROU-NWI-TIB, giving him a leg over 50Km from ROU to NWI. I think he did 76Kmh, though I am not sure if it is just for that leg or the whole task. He might well have got his 100K diploma too.
Also Andy H, did 5 hrs apparently 'by accident'. He enjoyed a fair bit of local soaring - and then noticed that it was around 5 hrs.
Peter R did TIB-FRW-SIL-TIB to get 340 odd K. I think Tom Smith also set of for Silverstone. I expect he got round, but did not speak to him. I also set off for Silverstone, but wimped out at Newmarket, when it went blue. The sky east of Lakenheath was working till 18:00. The big clouds that you see at the end of the day, and wonder if they work well.... really do work well. I also shared a thermal with the Tibenham Buzzard. Nice!
Thanks to Mick H for running the day, and all the club members out and about for getting us all airborne. I have probably missed a few things out, but it's been a week since it all happened, now.
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