Another day with a miserable forecast - showers and storms. Blipmaps indicated not much lift, and strong winds moderating later in the afternoon. The wind part of it was fairly accurate.
Miro again declared that he would fly come what may! Harry Medlicott also decided to fly regardless, but would commit to setting a task. John flew the Junior again. Geoff Neely again came out to tow.
Geoff launched Miro, Harry and John, and despite the sky looking a bit grey, none of them came down again. Geoff thought he might be able to pack up and go home, but John decided to land and launch again - he is trying to get enough flights for his B certificate. It is taking a long time because he is soaring for so long on each one! As John launched for the second time, there were showers to the east of the strip getting closer. At this point Gabor and Dave Sieb came out, having given up trying to hang glide from Mt Borah. It was raining over there.
It looked pretty ordinary at Keepit, but we pulled the Grob out anyway and Gabor did three circuits. Not a lot of lift about, but the wind did moderate. I got Gabor to fly the aerotow - Geoff's comment "I could tell it wasn't you flying the tow - but only just".
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