Autumn wave on its way?

We had a good day in wave on Saturday despite the poor weather forecast putting a lot of people off.  I had two flights with a couple of friends which reached 11000' and ~8500', and Colin Sword had another good flight climbing to over 10000' on a spinning exercise with Eddie Stephenson in preparation for his full cat.

With the wave season fast approaching can I ask everyone to think about taking a logger with them when they fly?  The BGA are wanting as many flights as possible to be submitted to the BGA Ladder that go above FL100 so that they can prepare a case for EASA to abandon the mandatory use of transponders above FL100 from 2012 onwards.

Keep an eye on the RASP forecast (http://rasp.inn.leedsmet.ac.uk/RASPtable.html) for wave and let's see if we can make NGC the highest flying gliding club in England for two years on the trot... Maybe even the UK?

Submitted by Rob Rose on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 09:26

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