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More Storms
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Very little to report today. I think I would normally have
left the more enthusiastic pilots to the storms, but there was the
opportunity for John Glossop to tell me exactly and in depth where I am
going wrong by installing him in 220 and going for a short local flight. The
cloudbase had improved since yesterday, but so had the rate of growth of the
cu-nims, so I adopted a very cautious strategy of not putting ourselves in a
landout situation by going to, say, the Ecrins.
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Storm over Serre Montdenier
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There was a shower at Cheval Blanc and darkness to the north
of the parcours, so we turned south towards the lac Ste Croix. A large and
rapidly growing cloud, complete with a flat hat, stood guard over the Serre
Montdenier. Under the cloud it wasn't long before we encountered huge
raindrops that cracked like bullets against the canopy. I was further
persuaded to retreat by the sight of lightning in the immediate vicinity,
although that just turned out to be JG "forgetting" to switch off
the flash from his camera. These old-timers and the games they get up to,
eh?
Three large cu-nims were developing nicely along the west
of the Durance, one of them spitting (real) lightning. We carried on over
the pre-Alps as far as the Dormillouse, where we heard some bleating from
Sisteron imploring their gliders to come home. There seemed no other place
to go, so we made a gently descending circuit of the cuvette and landed in
good time to attend the club's weekly aperitifs.
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JG
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