Dave and another pilot over Corndon.The forecast promised that the cloud would burn off and it would be a sunny day. We expected it to be pretty much like yesterday only less windy. We worked in the morning and then got a call from Graeme to let us know it was flyable on Corndon, despite still being very cloudy. Dave T. reported nice cumulus in Telford, so we headed up there and listened to the BBC radio forecast on the way. Definitely sunshine for England and Wales in the afternoon.

Geoff and I elected to launch from the saddle near the car park and fly up, rather than walking up to the top like the Daves did. I launched first and had to scratch very, very closely to the rocks to get up. At one point I thought I was going to go down, but I managed to top land very untidily in the end. Geoff managed a bottom to top as well. It was very up and down, so short flights were possible, but you had to keep top landing to have another go.

Eventually the sun came out and it got sinky, so we all waited with bated breath for the epic conditions to start. Ten minutes later it was cloudier than it had been. When we packed up at 4pm, the wind was light and it looked so dark you would think it was going to start to rain.

I’m starting to get itchy feet and want to get going. Roll on the sun, sea and San Miguel…

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