Thermaling a Robin HR200
A few years back out of EGSR in a Robin Hr200 doing PFLs on to the small strip on Lavenham disused. Good student and very thermic day with a massive towering Cu above us, dropped 10 flap and 70 mph and up we went like the preverbal luv sick angel, student was good with balanced left turn staying the thermal. Then we noticed we were not alone, the blokes from Rattlesden were in on the act first one then two glass fibre rockets and many more all following us around in the thermal. Point was we were making about 500 / 700 fpm roc but these blokes must have been doing double that, and one went by us giving a wave as he went !!!!!!!!!! We bugged out at FL55 but the others just kept going up to the TMA base.
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