Weekend Report: Blown in
Saturday
The weather had us well and truly fooled this weekend with big black skies on Friday night, thunderstorms and torrential rain. It was the same for Saturday night.
During the day on Saturday we had a 35kph NW and 8/8 cloud. The Vliegklub had a very successful “fun rally” with breakfast served in the Clubhouse, which was also well supported by CGC members. Thanks guys! The rest of the day's gliding was very quiet with no lift -just a few check flights by the visiting pilots, Hans from Switzerland and Piet from Holland.
Sunday
Sunday was far better for soaring but got off to a slow start with the weather looking to be the same as Saturday. Fortunately it quickly improved. Sven had a long soaring flight and Piet from Holland followed him down the ridge in GUC (Piet said that he had read all about our amazing flights from Worcester) Hans will be staying on for a few days. Both pilots were astounded that we do not fly during the week.
We did 20 flights on Sunday with a few “Air Experience” flights. William Whittaker flew some friends in GOK; Alan Procter and Ari took turns at tugging and gliding; and Henry Barnes did a splendid job of Duty Piloting all by himself (because his partner did not turn up).
PLEASE REMEMBER TO BOOK FOR THE “END OF THE TEAR” PARTY WITH WALLY TAMSEN – TIME IS SHORT.
Alison
The weather had us well and truly fooled this weekend with big black skies on Friday night, thunderstorms and torrential rain. It was the same for Saturday night.
During the day on Saturday we had a 35kph NW and 8/8 cloud. The Vliegklub had a very successful “fun rally” with breakfast served in the Clubhouse, which was also well supported by CGC members. Thanks guys! The rest of the day's gliding was very quiet with no lift -just a few check flights by the visiting pilots, Hans from Switzerland and Piet from Holland.
Sunday
Sunday was far better for soaring but got off to a slow start with the weather looking to be the same as Saturday. Fortunately it quickly improved. Sven had a long soaring flight and Piet from Holland followed him down the ridge in GUC (Piet said that he had read all about our amazing flights from Worcester) Hans will be staying on for a few days. Both pilots were astounded that we do not fly during the week.
We did 20 flights on Sunday with a few “Air Experience” flights. William Whittaker flew some friends in GOK; Alan Procter and Ari took turns at tugging and gliding; and Henry Barnes did a splendid job of Duty Piloting all by himself (because his partner did not turn up).
PLEASE REMEMBER TO BOOK FOR THE “END OF THE TEAR” PARTY WITH WALLY TAMSEN – TIME IS SHORT.
Alison
posted by CGC Reporter at 14.11.05
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