June has been a disappointment for soaring, so I wanted to get into the air in the first half-decent day for weeks. I grabbed the K8 for what turned out to be the best part of the day, staying up for a couple of hours. There were strong thermals up to 3800ft, before high cover came in and everything went flat.
Tim D, Alan C and George all had their gliders out for an airing. Paul B, Robin, Gail, Susi, Martin J and Richard Allen shared the club gliders, and Abenezer went with Bruno in the Falke for a navigation exercise. Bruno was also busy giving french student Caroline lots of launch failure practice. We all know what that phase of training heralds: Bruno sent her solo the following day.
With some air experience flights for visitors we achieved 30 launches in the day.
Dave Price