westbury 29.09.09

Arrived very late at Westbury after pondering over several current weather reports. Eventually rang local pilot Tony Moore who looked out his house window to tell me it was worth a drive.   Arrived to find no one flying, light/variable but mainly from WNW to NW wind. 20 minutes before I was ready a couple of PG's got up and were away heading up wind. Local pilots Kevin winters and Dave Tyler bombed out just before I was ready.   With a model glider and 2 PG's going up I launched and climbed up to cloud base in a 6 mph drift. Headed towards Trowbridge under a cloud street and soon passed up the first PG that took off just North of Westbury town.   Generally had weak climbs with the odd 4 up against a head wind of 10-18 kph. A really enjoyable flight. Unfortunately spread out occurred and my progress halted upwind and had to go into survivor mode to just stay aloft.   Arrived back at Westbury under a nice forming cu to make CB again which was always never above 3150ft asl. Headed 4km WSW and glided back to take-off and landed to finish a very enjoyable flight. Approx 27km flat triangle.   Tim King had a great flight too achieving a pre declared triangle, can't remember the distance though.   Tony