The day was blue an 7 am, but grey at briefing time. The forecast was quite good, and the blipmaps indicated good soaring conditions. None of the forecasts seemed to have accounted for the high stratus, with rain occasionally falling out of it.
Nevertheless, we got out the training glider and Roland had his first aerotow. Not much in the way of lift. After his second flight, it started to rain, so we stopped for lunch.
The sky was blue to the south west with cu starting to develop, but tantalisingly out of reach.
As the day wore on the good conditions got closer to the airfield until by about 1700, it was booming.
Jim Staniforth and his friend Jim Dingess flew together in the grob, accompanied by Gabriel in the Jantar. John White flew the LS7 and Paul Roche the LS6. Roland managed to thermal up almost to cloudbase in the Puchatek. Good turn co-ordination practice!
John White landed at 1930 and said the clouds were still working.
We are looking forward to a similar day tomorrow but without the early overcast!
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