Some gliders were flying, most landed quite early - about 2 pm. I pulled the Mosquito out of the hangar and look a launch at about 4 pm. The couldbase had gone up to about 6000ft, and there were some good streets. Heard Nick Singer at Barraba so decided to head that way. We met near a cloud both the same height coming from opposite directions - flarms helped! Then we flew together out past Split Rock Dam along a good cloud street. Turned back for Keepit about 70 km out, but ran out of clouds about 40km out. Looked for a while like we might have to land at Jack Gaineys as a storm had killed everything around Keepit. However we stayed in the air long enough for the sun to heat the ground again, and the thermals started again, so we got back!
Monday - we have a lot of members at the club, and two students this week. Todays weather was very hot and humid again, with a lot of showers about. Eventually storms built up all around and we had to stop. Managed six training flights, and at least four gliders soared beneath one of the storms - but reportedly the lift wasn't much good.
The grass on the runway is growing amazingly quickly. We still have not had another steady downpour to test the roof repair.
Hopefully tomorrow with be a better day for the cross country pilots.
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