Thursday, 4th June 2009
Posted by Geoff on 04 Jun 2009 at 06:53 pm | Tagged as: Flying
Geoff writes: post cold frontal, light wind forecast, everything we saw said it was starting east and going through to north. So for once we didn’t agonise over which site to go, and went to Corndon. The sky was epic, we went up the east face, and saw it was off to the south; so we went to the SE face, and it was still off to the south. So we went to the SSW face (there is one at Corndon, kind of) – and it was off to the west. We had (whilst we were on the SE face) noticed a couple of people flying on the Mynd, but we were convinced that was just a temporary thermal, rather than the true wind direction, and that it eventually would come on somewhere at Corndon.
It didn’t; eventually we all gave up and drove off to the Mynd. Sure enough, it had been westerly all day, and still was, but very, very light. Paul Lawrence had earlier been at 2400′ ATO, but came back to the ridge. Anyway, we sat around for some hours, occasionally lobbing off. In the end, only Paul (again!) got up high, to over 3000′ ATO. Everybody else did little or nothing.
Congratulations to Paul, who outflew us all today!
Apparently it was the same in the Peak District too – easterly forecast, but actually west.
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Hi it was a real funy sort of day a bit like alpine conditions with the wind folowing the lift at bach hill there was a gentle breeze all day bang on the hill sometimes off to the west sometimes off to the east. but the cloud shadows on the ground were moving south east ie away from the hill in a NW direction.I had several attempts at getting away usaly launching in nill wind and flying out over the fence to connect with 4ms thermalls marked by buzzards crows and kites.
there was a huge CU sitting above the hill all day and i made it up above take off every time but never quite high enough. I had to pick kids up from school at 3.30 so had to go but it was starting to get better, streeting and base was lifting.oh hum. looked good on paper ,you did not miss much.
there is one of those rally things on 11th–12th july @ bach hill. so best tell every one its closed that weekend i think as it only can cause friction. could you put it on the longmynd fourm please.
cheers.
Booked time off work to fly but thought I’d wasted the day until I got up from the malvern west face at 4pm. Cracking day it turned out to be after all, once you were up you were up, but a hell of a long wait. The forecasters all got the wind wrong – we actually watched the clouds change from south east to north west during the day – and it was forecast to be north east!