So wrong, in so many ways

Looks like my ploy to confuse the weather gods by getting the date wrong for Monday failed.
There was a 40 minute soaring window, as the sky went from blue to 8/8.
This did not stop Mick Hughes, from running his day course for two members.
There was even a period late afternoon, where it seemed to be soarable, despite 8/8 cover, as the clouds thinned.
Better luck next time....


Maybe even this sunday (3rd April). Look at this RASP picture for 1300 on Sun (84 hrs out)... sorry I could not help myself. N.B. the beeb currently shows sunday as being 8/8 cover with drizzle all day.

Got a pass for Monday 27th March?

This could be a pretty good day in East Anglia ! I hope I don't jinx it by pointing it out.

Here are some pictures from RASP for tomorrow:

Firstly, here is the updraft at the best part of the day. It starts to look pretty soarable from 11.30.

But at 1500 (1600 BST) in the day it is still looking good too!

Admittedly cloudbase is highest towards the end of the day, but from 1200z, it will be above 3K'.

Could this be on? (option to drop MCH, if running behind schedule - running out of day).

Here's another version, maybe staying under the higher CB more.

19th Mar, Finally the start of the season?

Quite a busy day, with all three twin-seaters out, and one astir.

It got thermic shortly after midday - enough for people to stay up.

It stayed blue all day, with TOC rising from around 3,000' to around 3,600'.

Thermals stopped shortly after 1630. It looks like the season has started.

Saturday 12 March

Congratulations to Kevin Holdsworth and Josh Brownlow for passing their Bronze examination written papers today and thanks to Steve Brownlow for getting the happy candidates up to scratch.

Sunday 27th Feb

Managed to get down to the airfield on Sunday - all three of the club two seaters were in action - and our new tug was kept busy. Flying was off R/W 33 - several flights over 3/4 hour were acheived



With thanks to Phil I enjoyed a couple of long circuits off the winch.

As the sky cleared and the winds dropped - the based Fokker Tri-Plane took off on a sortie

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