3rd August: a Good Time.

I promised Peter Carter some cross country coaching, but the day was slow to improve from poor; that gave us plenty of time for a briefing and tea! I was beginning to doubt the wisdom of the President's Triangle.

We launched after 14.00hrs and got down to 1400' before we found a thermal. Up to over 3000' and a proper start. A good series of thermals took us to Norwich East and we turned this high after a climb. A line of lift continued all the way across "the fine city" until we got to the western edge. Here we lost all battery power (for the third time today!) but continued for a while. Without the audio vario we decided to return to TIB but at Wymondham fell into a 5kt thermal to over 5000', so game back on. At PIC we met up with Phil in the DG and lost out to him on the run back to DIS. We did take a climb or two edging toward TIB, with one flying and the other being audio vario and additional lookout. A great first time cross-country for Peter. I am sure this has whetted his appetite!