At Aboyne When you wake up in the morning and look out of the window, if the tree’s are bent over in the wind, it’s a race to eat breakfast and exceed the speed limit on the way to the airfield. This was how today was going until I arrived and saw the windsock’s. They are about 300meters apart and were both pointing towards each other, then minutes later they had reversed direction. The dreaded wave rotor directly over the field, so after yesterday battering we all went back to drinking tea and waiting for things to calm down a bit!
Two hours later both Lasham and Booker summoned the courage to put K21’s on the runway and give it a go. Surprisingly I only banged my head on the canopy once, not surprisingly I did not want to have another flight in conditions that were marginal to operate a K21 in.
Things began to calm down by late afternoon with evidence of wave setting up along the Dee Valley towards Ballater half a dozen people launched for a late evening wave flight.
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