On duty Tim Donovan, myself and Tessa as LPC. and Clive as BI
The day started early with a weather review, Notam checks and what TL were scheduled. Very quickly the arrival of two TL's spurred us on to get started.One couple had in fact come from Jersey.
The weather looked a bit ifif but in the main was located to the SW with better and more open weather to the east and south east.
Quickly Robin got the winch out followed by the bus and DDB in the farm field.
The first launch taken by Tim and Tessa saw DDB testing a cloud formation lying SE to NW and various views saw this as some convergence between the poor heavy weather to the SW and clearer weather to the east.
The flight was a wonderful 13min tester climbing to 1800 ft and soaring along the cloud line.
All progressed well between the odd shower and all the TL's had their flights
The highlight on the afternoon was the low fly past 300ft of the Lancaster on it's way to Fairford
Who ever organised this was a real star. What a wonderful sight of Lanc 1 appearing from the north across the far field and right over the top of us.
Sorry I didn't manage to get a shot but others did and if I get one emailed to me will put it on this Blog
Final thanks to the small team who were there including Lucy and Patrick who also managed some flights and in particular Robin for starting the day and John Whiting for carrying much of the days winching.
Just shows what you can do with an enthusiastic group all in all some 18 flights when I had to leave
We fortunately had MC and Lee in the Supermunk to give us a forecast of approaching weather allowing us to carry on after a fairly heavy shower
Derrick
