Evening everyone,
Just your friendly neighbourhood Safety Officer here with a word to the wise about the weather tomorrow. With this ridge of high pressure passing over us, before the next front comes in you'll have seen how the winds are backing throughout the day and how people have been talking about usable windows and interesting XCs. So, with this changing picture, what does it mean for you? Back to the basics of reading the conditions:
Don't arrive at the hill with preconceived ideas about the weather.
Just because other people are flying doesn't mean you should be.
Just because it was fine an hour ago doesn't mean it's fine now.
Just because a bunch of people got away on XC an hour ago doesn't mean you have to.
Basically, nothing's changed has it, because that's how you evaluate conditions anyway. You look at the forecast, you go to the hill and look at the weather based on all sorts of factors and then you make a personal decision to fly or not to fly. Also, continue to evaluate the conditions while you're in the air. The wind may have changed while you've been flying so you may choose to bottom land when you might otherwise have top landed and parts of the hill may be in turbulence that were smooth earlier on.
So stay sharp and enjoy the day. I'll be out, and I'll make a decision on what I do based on what I see when I get there.
Happy, and safe, landings,
Nick
safety@tvhgc.co.uk
Sent from Mail for Windows 10
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