By far the best day of the year so far with 65 entries on the BGA National Ladder, including some seriously big flights by the national pundits - 1 x 750k, 1 x 700k, 3 x 600km+, 12 x 500km+, 15 x 400km+, and 17 x 300km+ flights!!! Amazing for April. Closer to home there was lots of flying instruction and local soaring going on, in fact when I arrived around 1pm DW reported to me that they had had to ask DS to come in and instruct, as well as Bruno, and all 3 K13s were very busy.
As expected, a few likely candidates had set off XC - Al & Lee in the Duo, Graham in his Lak, John LC in his DG800 and Alan L in his DG 300. I finally got ariborne around 2:30pm with a winch launch onto the ridge where I found a good thermal and climbed away. There were some fantastic climbs (I saw 7kts on the avaerager!) but some awsome sink and 20kts of wind at height! In the end I clocked up over 3 hours, but should have achieve more with the day than my local bimble to Northampton and Bicester (where I landed out - doh!).
The season has begun in earnest. Don't miss the next big day.. www.weatherton.blogspot.com/