Photos from Pocklington

Lech sent the photos below. Only 3 days flying (pretty much the same weather as the rest of us) but a good time had by all, and lots of museum visiting. See you if you can spot the odd photo out!

 

Competitions & Results!!

A big congratulations to Leigh and Martyn Wells who came first and second in the Standard Class Nationals at Aston Down last week!

Last week was a busy week for club members competing in gliding competitions. Graham Paul was flying the Open Nationals, and Lucy was competing in the Junior Nationals at Lasham. Lucy, flying the only wooden glider in a competition that had difficult weather and was - oddly - not using DHTs or AATs, had a good week for field landings, and found some cracking fields. If you don't land out you're not trying....

Another three crews of assorted club members were competing in the Two Seater Comp at Pocklington in East Yorkshire. Alan & Trish, Bob & Jan, Paul F and Tim D took their respective gliders up north for the week, and looks like they flew at the start of the week though I'm guessing from the results that they had the same poor weather as us later on.

With the end of the competitions it feels like the season is already drawing to a close, but there's still lots of good soaring & cross country flying to be had so don't hang up your parachute just yet.... 

Saturday 25 August

A westerly wind didn’t turn northerly enough for the ridge to work, but it was still a useable day. Graham H, John R, Steve T and Al all went away for an hour or two dodging the showers that arrived in the afternoon.  Tess was busy with air experience flights.

 Richard trying a winch launch after his scheduled aero-tow flight.

 Katharine looking forward to her second launch.

 Nitin returning to gliding after a 20 year gap

Philip was blinded by the sun, rather than in deep prayer!

Task Week snippets

I think they're having such a good week that they're too busy to send news! Al & Graham did 644km yesterday & sent this photo of the convergence that used for the final part of the task:

Meanwhile Clive sent this photo from Alistairs field landing near Brackley yesterday:

What a fantastic field!

Hope everyone is having a great week....

Photos.....

A link to some more competition photos:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/pjd4773/sets/72157695158739132/

Sunday 5 August

A busy day with our visitors from Kent (Challock) who have brought 11 gliders with them. It was another booming day, with cloudbase rising to 5000ft QFE. Every winch launch got away for a soaring flight straightway for the first few hours. This was the sky at 11.00am

Shenington members joined the Kentish contingent with Tim and John D, Graham B, John R, Steve T  and Rowan taking their gliders cross-country, whilst Paul M and Rob F gave the K8 an overdue airing. At one point we had 18 gliders airborne. Rob got his Bronze 2 hours – well done. New BI Lucy helped with the Air experience flights.

Our Task Week starts tomorrow, and the forecasts for Monday and Tuesday look very promising. Fingers crossed!