Tuesday 28th. A moderate/moderate to fresh S'ly blew all day providing lift in the form of thermals, hill and some weak wave. With the Tuesday evening group again active, flying commenced at around 1050 hrs and continued until around 1920 hrs, with 21 ATs off runway 20. 8 of these lasted over 30 minutes with […] Read More...
Monday 27th. A cold front with its cloud and rain delayed the start of flying until the early afternoon, but the post front clearance provided some good soaring conditions with hill, thermal and a suspicion of wave lift. 7 ATs were flown off runway 24, with an occasional landing on 20. Cloud base rose to […] Read More...
Saturday 25th. A moderate/moderate to fresh S'ly slowly veered into the SSE as the day progressed, the strength of the wind providing a few problems for those flying cross country in addition to the more usual ones of spreadout and blue holes. Flying got underway around 1015 hrs as Chris Handzlik took his DG300 […] Read More...
Thursday 23rd. A light to moderate S'ly that tended to veer into the SSE later in the day meant operations off 20, Cumulus development to the north and over the Pennines not extending to over the site until after midday. Initial 2 seater only launches in the morning were joined by a rush of private […] Read More...
Tuesday 21st. A light to moderate S'ly slowly veered into the NNE over the course of a sunny day, with Cumulus tending to spread out. The wind change caused 2 redeployments, the original operations off runway 24, with landings on 20, changing in the mid afternoon to operations off 02 and then off 06 around […] Read More...
Monday 20th. An initial light and variable wind settled down to become a light WNW'ly so operations off runway 02 were switched to runway 24 around midday, some landings then taking place on 20. The day was essentially blue and difficult, with pilots experiencing numerous low points whether on cross countries or flying locally maximum […] Read More...
Saturday 18th. After a bright start it clouded in as a light to moderate W'ly blew providing some thermal activity and later some hill soaring, mainly in the main bowl. The day's launch total was 17, with Bob Calvert being the only private owner to fly, keeping his Discus 2t up for exactly 4 hrs, […] Read More...
Wednesday 15th. A favourable soaring forecast brought out the members, with the launch point on runway 24 busy with 31 launches, as a light, mainly W'ly blew. Cross countries were the order of the day, with tasks into the Dales popular, variations on a Sutton/York/ Dales/North Pennines/Sutton task were flown by a number of pilots […] Read More...
Friday 10th. A moderate/moderate to fresh SW'ly slowly veered into the WSW on a day that provided lift in the form of hill, thermal and wave. Operations off runway 24 comprised both winch and AT, with 30 of the former and 11 of the latter, including17 private owner launches. 3 of the AT launches led […] Read More...
Saturday 4th. A moderate NE'ly blew all day so operations were off were off runway 20, with the occasional landing on 06. Similarly to Friday 3rd, there was a brief soaring window in the early to mid-afternoon when 5 flights exceeded 30 minutes, although there were none over an hour. Nigel Burke took Freddie Taylor, […] Read More...
