Wednesday 9 March 2011

Ridge & Thermal

Another soarable day - as predicted. The cold front had rattled through by dawn, bringing a very unstable airmass with rapidly building Cu and the odd shower - all of which fortunately missed the airfield. There was some local thermal soaring, plus a good spell where the ridge worked this afternoon as the wind gradually veered to just North of West. DW was out doing Annual Cx with Alan & Trish, and some further flying with Jan W. Also around were John L-C, Al C and Graham P - Graham having the longest soaring flight of the day with well over an hour in his Lak. I popped in around lunchtime, after work. Bruno flew the Falke around lunchtime, then got HVQ out and treated me to a 30 min flight on the ridge.