Writers block.
Sorry for the lack of a report yesterday evening but the effects of five hours of flying close to the rocks had left me unable to think of anything other than food, Drink and sleep. So I have written a quick review of yesterday just to keep you up to date


The promise of rain in the morning and a sunny afternoon turned out to be completely wrong as the sun shone from 6am this morning. The 10am weather briefing failed to give us any more clues as to what was going to happen today. Anyway the closest to reality turned out to be the one issued by the French national gliding centre at St Auban.

So we looked at the sky and cumulus over the big mountains and decided at 12:30 that it was time to launch. Not an easy run into the high mountains on the first trip of the day but well worth the effort with cloud base at 10,000ft over the parcour . For me the second flight was almost a repeat of the first. Although ‘G’ launched only 10 mins behind me his second flight was very different as he was caught by the approaching high cloud and took nearly an hour to get away from the local hills.

Colin