Broughton Sunday 5th April

Myself, Dudley, Sean and Tommy arrived at Broughton  a bit later than most at about 1PM, but I think it was just really getting going. Derek was already there. Lovely day, warm, gentle wind, like summer. Soon after arrival it started working and got pretty good. A little bit lively in front of the hill, and the thermals really started ripping once you drifted past the ridge.

After an initial fifteen minutes of flying backwards and forwards trying to remember how to fly the penny dropped and from that point on, it was relatively easy to get up to airspace if you were prepared to drift behind the hill and suffer the inevitable mauling coming back. It stayed working all day and it was still possible to climb high into the evening, but the climbs seemed to fade for me at least before getting really high.

Everyone flew well though, and I think we all spent a reasonable enough amount of time looking down at gliders not to be ashamed. Great day out altogether. Difficult enough to register high on the excitement scale, without crossing into the f*ck this I am out zone.