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Friday 23rd – Selsley
Bang on West, no turbulence, massive lift, 22 mph gusting 30+ Best lift ever I can remember for this slope, severely chilly though! Blue skies and sun too!
Andy with AliaJ – he launched, Christine flew (my hasn’t she come on in the last few months, needs to give Andy a few tips though?) 2/3rds ballast made the AJ ‘come alive’. Constant motion and great penetration, the grey clouds in the blue sky gave a few ’where the hell is it’ problems.
Guy with his ancient Phase 6 Pro and trusty MiraJ. As we left, I really thought I’d missed the opportunity to fly it with full ballast on board. One of those rare opportunities, in awesome lift.
Graham with his new Phase 4. Did the book in the aerobat department, as he does. No problems penetrating at all.
A nameless flyer from Wooton under Edge, let’s call him ‘channel 73’. He flew an ‘own build’ Sitar Special a la Solent Sailplanes of 20 years ago. Bagged wings,
Kevlar hinges, home spun epoxy fuselage. Flew great and was constructed to outlast the SS original by about 19 years.
Where was Phil with his Nyx? It would have loved it!
Good lift - Guy
Saturday
Saturday PM : Light lift at Frocester when the wind was truly SW the lift was quite good but it was drifting to S at times then it became a 'bit iffy', Tony, Christine and Andy and three other flyers. Good sunshine all afternoon. One of the other flyers landed out across the road in the middle of the farmers field....................
Friday PM : Very strong lift at Selsley West, the wind was measured at 32 MPH. This strong lift was enjoyed by Guy, flying his Miraj and Phase 6, Graham with his Phase 2 ?, Christine and Andy were flying Andy's Alliaj with nearly 2 LBS of lead ballast, it was going well. There was one other flyer, unfortunately I did not get his name, flying a Sitar ?...................
Thursday PM : Wind was on Selsley West, just.................In the normal way the lift was a bit intermittent. The only notable event worth reporting was that Christine did her first 'solo flight', a feat never to be repeated. Guy flew his Miraj, Andy flew Christine's Prodij................ we cried enough at about 3:15, Graham went to Frocester and enjoyed a very good late afternoon session.
Monday PM : Wind direction was SSW, Christine and Andy tried Frocester, the conditions were not suitable for flying anything but a foamy, Christine had lots of practice landing ! !
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Sorry we missed the meeting Wednesday, I was not feeling well, just about OK now though.
Cheers for now, see you on the slope.
Andy Dunan
Sunday
A good breeze at Haresfield, flying started in the bowl near the car park and
then moved to the main slope
Doug's BlaniKl from last week 
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