A better day than yesterday - the ground is starting to dry out now, and the easterly wind is much lighter. We launched from runway 32, and were able to land on 20 most of the day.
There were gloomy predictions from the blipmaps that the day would finish early (as it did yesterday) and that the thermals would stop at about 1600, however the last glider landed at 1830, not through lack of lift but from lack of water!
I did an orientation flight with a visitor from Poland, Rafal Elzanowski, in the Grob, and then sent him off to fly the Jantar, while I took his friend, also called Rafal, for a trial instructional flight. Paul Roche had booked Garry Speight to do some cross country training, and they flew in the twin astir. Greg Dennis flew the Junior Gerhard flew his Jantar and John White flew the LS7, but made it back to the airfield today. Geoff Neely flew his DG400. Of the club gliders only the LS6 and Puchatek did not fly. The LS6 is not booked for tomorrow - anyone interested?
The clouds looked fantastic from the ground, and the lift seemed quite good from the couple of sorties that I had, I'll find out what everyone did at briefing tomorrow.
I am hoping that I might be able to sneak a flight in the Mozzie in tomorrow, as I don't think there will be any check flights or AFRs to do.
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