Wow - August already, and our visitors from Kent already arriving and keen to get started on some soaring. Arriving for my duty day there was already a mass rigging taking place in the top field, and Robin was getting out G2. Another team of club pilots were carrying out glue failure checks on a variety of wooden gliders, including Eric, Andy L, Lucy and Alistair F.
Kit out, we decamped to the 8 acre with DVX & XXI plus the K8, and were soon joined by lots of Kent gliders. We had a healthy cross wind from the South west, and a low cloud base to start off, but enough height to fly the first trial lesson as an aerotow. John W and Bill G were the first of the very few to contact lift off the winch, having a 40+ minute flight whilst everyone else dithered about whether it was thermic enough to launch! Eventually Rowan did a brisk trade with SA though most people found the conditions a bit odd even off aerotow. Later on we saw what looked like wave clouds above the lower cumulus, and it was definitely a struggle locally to get away so maybe a local effect. Most of the winch pilots had to be satisfied with extended circuits, though Lucy having escaped the workshop for a while managed half an hour towards the end of the day. The private gliders mostly had decent flights, and Andy Moore flew in to visit.
Bill G did some more launch failure practice and resoloed again. Thanks to Robin, Eric & Andy L for manning the winch all day, and to Dave P, John W & Clive for keeping the launchpoint busy.
After flying a large bunch of us went down to the Roebuck for a meal to round off a pleasant day.