Promised my son Thomas that I would take him swimming today as it looked to windy today to go flying. When I woke up I was asked, "are you sure you don't want to go flying today it doesn't look that windy". As it was fathers day I could of course exercise my right to change my mind without any fear of recrimination. After procrastinating for an hour I was on my way to Butser.
Arrived to find another Dad, Grant, rigging. I started getting set up and it promptly rained, heavily. I considered going home again to try and go swimming before the day was a right off but decided to wait a while. It came good in the end and we had a nice afternoon in some buoyant air, wind was a bit strong and mashed up the thermals at times.
James
Sunday, 19 June 2011
Thursday, 2 June 2011
1st June Rybuy Hill
Fun day in the end, nothing close to the forecast, almost complete cloud cover and drizzle when I turned up at 12! Snotty and windy on hill (usual rybury) so took a windy rough climb, eventually got to base 10k from the hill, about 3400ft. The glider I was with disappeared into cloud and I never saw it again for an hour... some good lift lines under the cloud and shared some really rough thermals with sailplanes who were all over the place, and quite a few in fields below. Once past combe there was no sun anywhere so headed towards the m4 / a34 junction where I saw the white glider I had started with. dribbled along for a bit together but the end was inevitable. Thanks to Lawrence for the retrieve.
Chris J.
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