Geoff flying at Bache.Michaela, Geoff and I were up early raring to go where ever it looked good. The forecast was for hot and sunny weather with very light winds, but looking out of the window the sky was cloudy and it was spitting. Thanks BBC! We phoned just about everyone we could think of to try to decide the best place to go to and eventually settled on Bache.

It was still spitting when we got there, but eventually it brightened up. We got the gliders ready and Steve from Kington turned up. It was off to the south for a time, so we decided to throw the gliders in the car and go up to the higher take-off. Having watched Steve float about below launch for ages we gave it a go and found it worked better round the corner. I caught a thermal, but couldn’t turn in it because I was too close to the ridge and I sunk out in the sink behind the thermal. I slope landed and missed a barbed-wire fence by inches.

By this time the wind seemed more east again, so Michaela and I walked to the lower take off and Geoff flew there to meet us. Then it was just a waiting game… As soon as some birds came we launched, but they were few and far between. At 4pm James and Tammy turned up with a load of friends for tandem flights. I spotted a bird, flew out to it and got the thermal. James and Geoff followed me, but only hit the tail end of it. The thermal was weak and the drift was strong, so I settled on flying back up to the higher launch to retrieve the car. Got 600′ ATO. By 5pm the day was over, so we went for beer instead.

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