I was told, or was it ordered, by TC to do a report for today’s flying! Well perhaps if I just say it was possibly the best conditions that I’ve ever seen in Wales since I started gliding then perhaps that’ll give you an idea of how good it was. Cloudbase went up and up…
You know the hackneyed expression “you should have been here yesterday”……………well you should have been here yesterday! The cloud base went up to 6,000′ with 6 kt thermals. Even the main ridge was gently working. Several people did their first cross countries of the year. We had a lot of trouble to get our chairman…
Light westerly winds provided weak ridge lift. Thermals were equally weak. So not exactly booming. But we didn’t care because we flew! And it was a beautiful day with good visibility. Andy S and Tony P took the prize for the longest flight of the day at 59 minutes. Robin and Martin W also had flights. Thanks…
Mynd – Llandeilo – tricky again…. Yes it was a good day at the club and if you look at the ladder a lot of tasks from away used us as their turnpoint. We set ourselves the modest club task of Mynd-Llandeilo and back for 225km. I was first off but was soon struggling over…
Yes it was a good day at the club and if you look at the ladder a lot of tasks from away used us as their turnpoint. We set ourselves the modest club task of Mynd-Llandeilo and back for 225km. I was first off but was soon struggling over the Begyns near Lane Farm after…
A tricky day XC A good turnout for mid week with 4 trial lessons and quite a few members getting check flights or training from Mike Codd and Martin Watt together with a few visiting pilots as well. It was also nice to see Martin Brockington back tugging after his “eventful” trip to Kosovo –…
Unexpected wave to 7200 RASP indicated that wave was unlikely: No inversion (actually quite a high lapse rate) and wind veering markedly with height. However after morning tea (how civilised!) our eagle-eyed tug pilot Tony Crowden spotted an edge in the clouds in the lee of the Black Mountains overhead the Wye Valley. So off…
Another great day out! Lovely warm weather with little wind – now that doesn’t sound like Tal does it? Heavy inversion at first meant very poor viz and weak thermals to about 3500 amsl with only small haze caps. We’d set a task to New town, Llandeilo and back for 200km but it soon became…
A great day out… I’ll have to give this report from my perspective because I was in the air for nearly 6 hrs and so don’t really know what else was going on. We set ourselves one of the club tasks (see the ladder for the whole list) of Llandeilo -Mynd and back for a…
NE wave 9000 ft The forecast brisk NE wind made conditions on the field a bit sporting!!! During the morning, Cu bubbled up nicely with no sign of the cursed wave – Hoorah! The forecast also predicted cloud increase by Midday. I took the second launch onto Troed in my recently returned, refinished and fettled…