A trough passed through earlier this morning, and the temperature dropped very noticeably with the wind change. Before the change we had a raging northerly, and lots of smoke in the air. Ian Barraclough attempted a test flight in E-tug but found that he was making little progress over the ground at 90 kts, and was getting disorientated in the smoke.
After the change the wind was still strong and gusty, but the visibility cleared greatly. The wind was straight across the strip, and Bruce, our tuggie was not happy to fly in that much gusty cross-wind.
We elected not to fly and did jobs around the club instead.
