Cracking day, but not obvious From RASP

The trouble with RASP is that it is pretty good. So when you see a day that does not look too great, you tend not to bother. The kind of mackerel pattern you see below would suggest that maybe there are loads of showers or something. Speaking for myself, I would rather an all over smooth yellow colour than the mottled red. However, a few days showing up like the day below, which have turned out to be OK (well pretty good) have led me to at least turning up now.






If you'd looked earlier in the morning, say 11am, you would think that it would be a complete non-starter in Norfolk.





However, it was 'going' from pretty much ten a.m., and those people who got out to the club were in for a treat. Ray Hart was Duty instructor, with Chris Lawrewnce providing some great flights for trial lessons, as it was great soaring weather. I wonder if we get better conversion from trial lessons to members when the lesson is on a good soaring day.

In terms of acheivements:

• Beth Redpath got a Bronze leg


• Paul Gould got his silver height

Tim Heighton and Art Kerkhof explored XC in the Janus, and Mark Wright, Steve Brownlow, Dave Munro, David Taylor all went off in single seaters. I'm pretty sure I saw one Grob 109 exploring about too.






A couple of pictures: The east coast from near 7k', just south of Norfolk. I never knew my iphone did geo-tagging either, but going on the little maps in iPhoto: it must do.






Honington, with Mildenhall & lakenheath barely visible as sun pools in background. Note time is just past six in the evening. I've never been heading away from home so late before. The showers never reached Tibenham, you could see them to the North and East coasts, and later in the West.






Finally, if you look at the cumulous cloudbase for late in the day, you can see that it does indeed promise to be good up to around 7k'. Paul G saw around 7,800'. It was well worth turning up.


Now why could we not have this weather for the Eastern Regionals.