Saturday dawned showery and gusty much to the disgust of those of us at work all week, forced to look out of our windows at a great sky (admittedly in my case in the middle of the Birmingham TMA!). I understand that the conditions improved late afternoon, but only Rowan went soaring thanks to an aerotow from Gary B. Rowan reported good climbs and high cloudbase so definitely worth the launch....
Sunday's forecast wasn't so good, but it seems the forecasts shouldn't be relied on as the threatened rain never materialised, and the grey cloud cover slowly melted away and became nicely thermic. Phil Marks was in charge again and doing a brisk trade in DVX, flying with club members and a number of trial lessons. There were also private gliders launched and off soaring - long flights were had by Charles & Lucy (not at the same time!) in DNW, John & Tess (ditto) in H20, Robin in G2, Russell in JYR, Rowan in C2, and Paul M in his new toy HJZ....Cloud base wasn't as high as it looked, but it gradually worked its way up from 3000ft to c3900ft before turning blue (though still thermic) around 6pm. Paul Duffy, Norman and Dave lm put DVX through her paces when Phil was done, while Jackie helped out on the ground. Kevin performed another act of magic and managed to get the bus doors working again which is a special bonus when Eric (td) is about.....Thanks Kev.
There were a few bouts of motorgliding during the latter part of the day, and Jan & Ian popped in to say hello after flying out east for the weekend. They reported fantastic conditions in East Anglia...
All in all another enjoyable day at the airfield, and proof that the forecast shouldn't be believed over the view out of the window! See you all next weekend.....