Geoff writes: easterly forecast, so Malverns or Corndon. We thought both would probably work, but that the Malverns might be a bit easier, and a lot more thermal markers, i.e. other pilots. So off we went.

It was breezy when we arrived, but flyable. There were a lot of people, who spent a lot of time trying to get away, but it didn’t happen, with no significant height at all being achieved. One person did thermal back, and couldn’t get back to the front, but soon landed, at around 10km. After maybe a couple of hours, the wind dropped, and everyone landed, either top landing or bottom. At the same time, the cumulus did start to improve, and, when a few re-launched, and some got away low, I finally launched too. Bad timing though…. and I went down, along with a lot of other pilots. Some others did get away later on, but the maximum distance was probably in the 30s, with most people doing a lot less than that.

After Judith picked me up (she wasn’t flying today, she wasn’t very well), we went back to the car park to drop off some others, but I didn’t bother going up again, it was a bit late. Though it was flyable till dark, and, whilst sitting in the car park having a beer, at least one other person went.

Corndon wasn’t any better – some went XC, but less than 20km. Again, the north was the place to be with some good XCs done in the Lakes.

See photos of today.

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