> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Newton
> I was dumb enough to spend the day instructing: circuits in 36 deg
> temperatures. Wow. Awe-inspiring. Should do it more often. Not.
Been there, done that. For a change (?) on Saturday I was in the tug. 22 launches at about 35 degrees all day. Not noticeably cooler at the top of the launch either. An interesting day nonetheless!
Phil Ritchie and Richard Skinner both pushed out to Burra (100km to the north) which took them a couple of hours each. As Leigh noted in his email, about 60kts headwind and neither of them needed to thermal on the way back. Both were limited to 8500' and Phil reported one 12 knot thermal (shortly after leaving an 8 knot one!).
>
> We gave up winch ops at about 5:15pm when the winch driver reported
> that he wasn't prepared to perform any more launches because
> he couldn't see the glider at the top of the launch
At about the same time ASC also packed up and went inside. Once again, it wasn't so much the wind, but the muck in the air which had been there all day began to close in on the airfield.
Regards
SWK
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