News so far from Portmoak :
Sunday 18th dawned with very light Easterly winds, several pilots made use of the Euro Fox tug and had several inexpensive Aero tows.
Monday 19th started with very light westerlies, Caleb completed his site checks, took a launch in the Astir, then Robin Birch,Chris Huck and Paul Glassett took dual Aero tows with myself, the wind freshened and the last two flights made use of ridge lift.
Today (Tuesday) we were alerted to the possibility of Wave, we were all on site and online by 8.00 am along with several local pilots and the tug, the sky looked full of wave but unfortunately it was to weak to use, but the ridge worked all day.
Congratulations to Caleb who flew on the ridge for 5hrs, completing his Silver C, everyone else made use of the ridge for flights between 6hrs and 2hrs.
The wind is forecast to strengthen over the next couple of days so we may be lucky and get some wave.

Portmoak Update.

Wednesday was forecast to be another wave day, the wave was low level reaching around 7000ft, Caleb got his first taste of wave along with most of the CGC pilots. As forecast the approaching front arrived around 4pm causing the local cloud base to eventually reduce to around 800ft. unfortunately several gliders were cut off to the north including Simon Buckley who landed in a field.

Thursday started as forecast, 25kt westerly gusting 40kts the forecast was for the wind to drop in the afternoon and around 2pm the gusts reduced to 30kts.
E8,VV and FZK rigged and took launches. Rotor over the Ridge and Loch indicated wave which set up over the club. Chris Huck and Simon Buckley reached over 12000ft with myself reaching 7000ft in 4kts lift before opening the air brakes for Richard Burgoyne to fly. With sunset at 17:45 all were back by last landing of 18:00hrs.

Friday was cloudy and South westerly, but the sat pics showed wave above, despite this Robin,Simon B, Paul, Steve and Caleb decided to head south as Saturday was forecast wet and windy all the way home.
The rest of us rigged and flew, wave was there gaps opened and closed, Chris Huck reached 11000ft. The five CGC pilots flying Friday notched up nearly 15hrs flying between us.
All in all a very successful week, we flew every day, in Ridge, Wave lift, some good heights interesting flying and a silver completed.

Next trip April 2016

Simon Lucas