'Hello, thing! Your gliding club is in Lincoln? Chris Rollings always said there are no thermals East of the M1.....'
Hi Mary. Haven't glid (new verb there) for a while. Used to fly at Winthorpe at Newark but that closed down and Newark moved to Darlton which is just west of the Trent. Been doing a degree for the last few years so haven't had time to spit basically but all that comes to an end next year ho ho and I'll be back in the straps. Either back gliding or doing my PPL. However it dismays me a bit to hear about the number of people who jack in powered flying after they have their licence. Some heavy decision making going on here at the moment.
As for thermals east of the M1, my highest thermal flight from Newark was 8,300 (I still have the baro trace in my flight bag) which isn't bad for UK. We never got wave, or if we did I wasn't there and obviously there's no ridge soaring in Lincolnshire 'cos there ain't no ridges...........other than that the airspace restrictions around Lincolnshire and local counties are pretty light and the MATZ are getting fewer by the year, apparently Coningsby is the next big one to go. So in general the flying was not too bad.