Firstly congratulation to Nigel Burt on his 90km silver distance flight to the seaside (Parham) in EGF, thanks also to Colin and Alan S for retriving.
I met up with a friend above Sandhill Farm and we flew to Basingstoke and back to Sandhill where he flew back to Nympsfield and I flew back home. Carol and Phil in the Janus flew away from the good conditions in the south to Bicester, where Phil struggled in the poor conditions there, before returning home. The Duo did a couple of 100km laps and pretty much everyone else did some soaring.
We also had the pleasure of Rod's Swales returning to its home skies.
Also heard on the radio were pilots turning St Catherine's Point on the Isle of Wight...
Busy day with 5 private gliders rigged, 4 club ones out clocking up 36 launches 29.5 hours and a reasonable amount of kms. EFFy got well aired with me wandering between Newbury and Marlborough a a couple of times then Colin took her and also clocked up over 2 hours (before clocking up more Kms and hours on the retrive to Parham). Pete Smith kindly gave me the opportunity to add a new type to my collection. Once established with a reasonable height I spent the next hour without thermalling (helped by one of the best cloud streets that I have experienced)
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