Week 3. Day 2.

As we were driving towards the airfield the sight of the early morning classic wave to the East of the airfield gave some hope for a good day. As often is they were firmly in the Aberdeen airspace and would only be usable if you were flying a 737.

The wind was almost no excitant on the airfield but looking at the clouds there was a definite southerly airflow. The gaps in the lower cloud were opening and then closing fairly rapidly and this caused a number of people to stop climbing in the wave and descend through cloud on the turn and slip.

 

Eventually the gaps opened up and the Duo was launched towards the Southwest with Paul Haliday and Colin Watt on board. It was a slow climb over a small gap to the south of the airfield. This finally topped out at 7500ft and at the same time the gaps started to close and a rapid decent was started.

 

The day lasted long enough for all the expedition members to get a wave flight and some more practice at landing the Duo on the narrow Aboyne runway.

 

Colin Watt.