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winds forecast at 290/20. Some thermal activity during the afternoon.

A really good day despite the less than inspiring forecast.

Roger Bagley and Pat Greer kept the club flying going, while the course guys spent the day in the K13 doing various spinning exercises. Rex Lampier did his personal best soaring flight of a little under the hour.

Grass cutting around the caravan park thanks to David Hart and the South field thanks to Andy Smart.

2 self launchers went off at the end of the day to explore the wave at the Malverns.

winds 290/20 cloud bases around 1400ft QFE.

2 club single seaters and the K21 out today, operating on 27. The farmers bales are now gone, so no obstructions on the field now.

The course team managed an extremely crisp launch rate and so everyone managed plenty of training flights.

Rex is now flying the K23, while Colin Stringer kept current with the ASW19.

The course guys practised launch failures, too fast signals, various stalling exercises and circuit planning---great progress being made.

The outlook for Wednesday is similar and Thursday and Friday lighter winds but grey

NW winds and good soaring from around 12 noon.

Welcome to Mike Farmer, Rex Lampier and David Potter.

Rex resoloed and Mike and David worked omn launch failures.

Thanks to David Hart and Colin Stringer for their help at the launchpoint.

What a beautiful day; blue skies, little wind and for a few hours there were thermals to 2500'. Instructors were kept busy with the one-day-course and a few UWE students flying K21 and K13. Our vintage fleet was represented by the Skylark 2 (Mk4) and ETPS Oly 2b, both of which soared nicely. A few more modern private owners kept the launch point busy as well and we even saw the DG400 take a wire launch instead of using his pop up motor. Thanks to duty winch drivers, log keepers and helpers for making the day run smoothly.

What a wonderful day. 100% turnout from red team, four club gliders at the launchpoint by 10 am. Clear blue skies and a light wind brought some thermals by lunchtime and a few private owners brought out a variety of aircraft for some local soaring, including Adrian and Frank with their 1957 Skylark and Robin's even older Oly. Finally former UWE student Dan Van de Werf unpacked his shiny new Cirrus for his first couple of flights.

Thanks to the superior winching skills of the chairman and help from David Hart and Colin Stringer several pilots had three hours each in the air today.

Club flying tomorrow, and maybe we do the same again on Thursday as Andy Smart has kindly offered to winch. (Perhaps I will get to fly then too!)

If you want to fly Thursday please let Fran Knowles know as as she will be coordinating. We still need an instructor to supervise winching. (He gets the last launch?)

Fran's contact details will follow.

Adrian

Windy day on runway 27. We cancelled 4 of the trial lessons but flew the 2 who were already on their way. Was soarable to 2500’ for a couple of hours so a few extended flights. Finished early when everyone had filled their boots and then de-rigged LRT and the Astir ready for their ARCs.

Brilliant day today with One Day Course students after the rain cleared to thermals.

Last day of this week’s course for Howard, David and John and an interesting day. A forecast of a strengthening westerly meant setting up on runway 27, it was a bit hit and miss in contacting the thermals, but when we did, climbs to 4000’ were available with some fantastic views in the clear air. A few club members also took advantage of the day and we had a drop in from a Lasham pilot who had an aerotow retrieve back home.

winds 360/10 cloudbases 3300 QFE

A busy club day with several private owners and club gliders on the grid. many thanks to everyone for making the day run smoothly.

Soaring was better than expected with several notable flights, Climbs locally were 2 to 4 knots.

On the course John Hammond resoloed, David Potter is now the unprompted pilot and Howard Bunn is almost the handling pilot.

The remainder of the week looks flyable.