The bollocking is alive and well and living in Scotland.


Good to see lots of familiar faces when we turned up on Saturday afternoon and it’s not really surprising that they were all telling the same story about how poor the weather has been in the last two weeks.

 It would appear that high pressure has established it’s self over us, and on Sunday morning and the windsock was not moving at all, but despite this Graham Bell was sure that something was happening out to the North. With the courage of his convictions he took a launch and was very quickly established in weak wave. Both Lasham two seaters quickly followed and sure enough at 2500ft the vario hit 10kts and the air went smooth. Unfortunately the climbs topped out at 5000ft due to the wind decreasing with height.

 After about 2hrs the wave began to collapse and gliders were re appearing in the circuit. This coincided with a motor-glider having a braking issue while on the North runway, and a Nimbus stopping in the middle of the South runway, so you now had a blocked airfield and a Puchacz with an early solo pilot trying to land. The PIO and heavy landing that followed was not a pleasant sight, but fortunately neither the pilot nor aircraft were damaged. This obviously put the locals on edge and they felt the need to tackle even the slightest error with a bollocking.

 
So a good first day with everyone enjoying some local flying in the wave or afternoon thermals.

 
Colin.