Thursday 15th September 2016
No wind and very low cloud this morning but as the cloud slowly lifted I went out to Big Collin. The hill was by then clear of cloud and the wind was off to the S and 12-15mph at takeoff. I had a quick flight with a few soaring beats before slope landing after my student Keith McGeown arrived. We then got Keith airborne for a similar flight but as the wind went more westerly we left for Agnew's Hill.
More success there. At Agnew's west the wind was spot on for direction and a bit on the strong side at times on top. but mainly 14-16mph. Keith had a ball. He soared on his first flight and inadvertently top landed under full control - maybe just to show me! He followed that up with four more flights semi-soaring and doing big ears and rear riser steering when he headed out for his spot landings at the bottom.
We wrapped up around 6pm just as the cloud was descending on to the hill. On the way down Shane's Hill road we could see cloud starting to fill the valley below - looked like quite a temperature inversion at work.
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