Looking at today’s weather forecast yesterday, it looked like the only flyable window would be from 10:00-12:00 before an occluded front swept through drenching most of England. The fact that briefing was postponed until 11:00 essentially spelt out already that we weren’t going to fly. The briefing was fairly hasty and prizes were distributed for yesterday’s…
Both Nationals were scrubbed around 16:30. Again, the 150 km minimum for tasks appears to be the reason why these guys couldn’t fly as the weather windows have just been too small. The Regionals A Class (there are two classes, A and B) was set: Ilsley – Hungerford North for 103 km. They launched at 16:55, with most people starting by 17:30. There were seven finishers, two of those competing hors concours, the official winner being Julian Hitchcock flying a DG-1001M at a speed of 76.1km/h. He leads the Regionals by 14 points from John Taylor (ASG-29) and Colin Hunt (Ventus 2cT).
Once again, there was fog on the airfield as we woke up. Cloudbase remained at 300 feet for much of the morning, but for a time the satellite images suggested there might be a possibility of clearer air to the southwest being pulled inland to us by the low sitting about about 100 km to our northwest, or one of…
Unfortunately I left both of my ‘proper’ cameras in the car, so all of these photos are from my phone.
Classic UK Comp weather today. Fog on the airfield as we prepared the glider (I’m crewing for one of the Open Class pilots), with briefing at 10:30. No task was set, and a fairly hideous looking weather forecast sheet for the day was distributed (see the Day 1 Photos). It looked like there could be…
