Tuesday

Only Adrian, Ian and Jan left, with a few club members and a visitor from The Park. It was Ian's day as duty instructor and conducted a weather briefing at 10am.  A front is expected over the next 24hrs but no-one quite knows when it's likely to hit, in the meantime we have 5-10knts NW with little forecast of rain, and the wind expected to go more westerly during the day, with cloud bases of about 3000 and wave clouds obvious since about 7am.  Landing preferences were now on the west run over the fence (between the gap in the trees) or up the south west run uphill accepting a gentle crosswind.

The main ridge worked reliably all day although towards late afternoon the wind eased and went westerly as forecast.   Adrian had the last flight of the day with Ian and stayed up a good long time of 1hr 34 on the main ridge, north bowl, the spine and Mynydd Troed.  Longest flight of the day was club member Mark Fisher 2hrs 52mins in his Nimbus C.  The club did a total of 9 flights with average time of 1:10mins. 

Jan flew the ASW20 for an hour beating along the main ridge to Hay Bluff and out into the valley to try to find the wave, but there was nothing useable.  Thermal activity from the valley was enhancing the ridge lift in places up to about 4knts, allowing climbs to about 2600ft (the ridge lift only up to about 2300ft).  In the valley there was too much cloud cover at about 3000ft to make any use of possible wave.  After and hour in the cold, it was time to head back and land to drink tea and warm feet and hands. 

Twelve of us went to the new Thai restaurant in Talgarth and had a fantastic meal (see Adrian's photos).

Stats

9 flts, total soaring 11hrs 35mins, average flt time 1hr 17mins. Longest flight 2hr 52mins club member Mark Fisher.  There was 6hrs 46minutes available flying time.