Geoff and Kath Rigg on CorndonThe forecast was for a warm front which was supposed to go through at lunchtime. When we woke up, it was clear that the front had arrived early. We went to Corndon where the HG league were already assembled. We were hopeful that the front would clear and it would become good in the afternoon.

Once we got there it was overcast and light winds. It stayed like that all day. We spent the day chatting to old friends and it was particularly nice to see Len Hull.

Milling around was a BBC film crew making a programme called ‘Above Britain’ with Jocky Sanderson. The subject of the episode was thermals. Sadly, there were not many thermals for them to film.Wayne and Geoff flying above Corndon.

Pilots started to lob off the hill at 4pm but no one got high enough to get away. The launch window closed at 5pm and it got nicely flyable at 5.45pm. The last HG launched, stating that “I might as well fly down”, but he went up and Geoff and Wayne launched shortly after to have a really nice evening flight. They got up to 700-odd feet ATO and made the most of the nice sunny evening.

See photos of today.

See video of Bob Little launching his HG.

See video of Wayne launching his PG.

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