Mayobridge

Last night I sent an email to the club email list to see if anyone was going out as today's weather looked promising. I sorted the kids out with their morning activities while I had my eye on Magilligan but when I checked with Phil who is based up that way it turned out to be too strong and Phil was heading for Portrush sand dunes.  I phoned Bertie, after umming and arring we decided to go to Mayobridge as we knew there were already people flying there. By the time I collected Bertie we had gained another passenger, Bertie's student Alistair, the more the merrier.

As we passed out the south side of Rathfriland we could see three gliders in the air at the high ground we refer to as Mayobridge as that is the name of the town that you can see to the NW when you are flying there.

By the time I had been blown around the hill a bit attempting to launch a couple of pilots left the hill for a chance at flying along to the Mourne mountains. We spotted a curtain of rain heading our way so we packed away our wings to stop them from getting wet only to watch the cloud miss us to the west. Conditions calmed down after the rain clouds had passed. I decided wait until Alistair got airborne because he only had "Dealing with a asymmetric tuck" and two top landings to tick off on his list of tasks towards his Club Pilot qualification. Knowing this, when I got airborne I could barely fly for watching him on his top landings.

I got myself an easy 20 minute soaring flight to recharge my batteries and I am glad to say that Alistair got those tasks completed. I am on the Blue Ozone Electron in the video.