| Comments | :: | Sometimes unexpected days can be the best. Arrived at about 2pm to find about 30 cars parked at Rybury and a gaggle of pods hanging over the hill itself and Wallis big earsing in on Milk. It looked too strong but I waited. After listening to Pete W's tales of hours of flying earlier at Westbury I took advantage of Ken and Wallis departure (usually a bad sign!) to park up the top of Milk. Finally the wind dropped enough for a posse to take to the air and eventually I did too. Being a genius I had managed to leave my gloves at home so only did a couple of short flights but it was very pleasant, if not that thermic: about 250ft ATO max. A few red ribbons took to the air as well, as the conditions dropped off a bit more: although this meant that the Milk 'wave' effect we'd seen earlier wasn't so pronounced. Good to see so many new faces: Rybury had done a good job of removing most of the XC hounds so the skies were not too packed. Really nice to have three consecutive weekends (Malverns/Combe/Milk) of flying in March - lets hope it lasts!! |
