Lots of activity this weekend on the airfield, kicked off on Friday evening with the start of the evening lectures. Simon and Geoff gave interesting talks with around 30 members in attendance.
The strong Westerly (becoming more North Westerly) on both days proved challenging for some of the ab-initios along with dreadful pea soup visibility on Saturday. Saturday saw Paul Lazenby, Barry Keys and Alex Jones going off to Shobdon in formation for a bacon sandwich (the best ever apparently) while Doug Gardener had the day's bragging rights managing 3 hours soaring in extremely difficult conditions. Honorable mention goes to Gerald Birt who worked tirelessly on the launchline all day. Saturday night was the "Quaff my bluff" wine tasting evening (thanks Richard) which was a great success.
Sunday's weather looked far more promising with early Cumulous development but Wave influence across the whole area again made soaring quite difficult. Honourable mention of the day goes to Lara Small for her first solo (sent by Richard Kill) in a PW6. A suggestion was made that a crowbar is going to be needed from now on to prise her out of the cockpit now that she's solo (she would have done 10 if Richard had let her.....!). A couple of wave flights were acheived with John Macwilliam getting to 11,000 over Ross on Wye. Big turnout from UWE again - nice work guys.