Aboyne 2014

Day 4 Arrived at the  Airfield with rain still falling and had to wait for it to clear. However we were launching after 1000hrs into thermals. Winds were very light 240/5kts initially backing to southerly later in the day. Mike Wild managed to blag a ride in an ASH25M with Ron Gardener and toured the highlands landing at Portmok before returning, alas he wont stop telling everyone about it ever since.
Hilton Thatcher and Merv had some good thermalling flights as did Bill Vesty with John Simmonds with best climbs to cloudbase at 4500'. Dave Paffett, Stuart Waldie, Colin Simpson and Kevin Woods shared the single seaters in the thermal conditions. The main hope for wave was late in the day when the thermals had died away. Both 2 seaters launched after 1730hrs and took tows to over 3000'. Merv and Hilton found some consistant lift in weak wave while Colin and John Ranged over a wide area making contact with briefer weak wave. A beautiful sunset followed.

Day 5 Very low cloud hung around most of the day restricting the flight to circuit practice. A better day looks in prospect tomorrow