Sunday 6 May 2012.
John Donovan in charge, assisted by Tim Donovan later, and Gavin flying some friends and family. The wind was as predicted ( from the North East, about 5 knots) but the morning sky looked better than forecast. I took a launch at 11.40 and stayed up for an hour, hitting a cloudbase of 3,300ft QFE.
Cloud rolled in soon after, giving the flat grey day that had been predicted. Plenty of launches taken, mostly air experience flights, but with the day declining we thought we would be packing up early.
Then about 4.00pm, the day revived spectacularly. Alistair Frier got a 60 minute flight, John Rogers took a K8 for an hanger flight and stayed up for an hour and 45 minutes. Alan L did a later hanger flight for the other K8, and took it up to cloudbase around 5,000QFE. After much patient waiting and helping on the field, visitor Harry Abrahams, flying with John D, got a flight of just under an hour. Lucy and Tim D. took the last flight of the day and got 1 hour and 20 minutes.
An unusual day, but very welcome after weeks of rain.
Dave Price