A Great Afternoon on Itford Hill 6th July 2014

Hi all,
Myself, Clint, Terry B and Marc met up at Itford Hill this afternoon.
Captain Hampshire had other arrangements and could not make it, but he spent hours texting us about how it was going !
The wind at the base of the hill looked disappointing, but we persevered up to our usual West-facing place and were surprised at the strength of the wind. However as you all know - wind doesn't mean lift and we were also surprised at how hard we all had to work to keep our models in the air. After about an hour, the wind and lift picked up significantly and we were all up in the clouds despite only having foamies today.
We stayed till nearly 16:00 from 12:30, so had a good innings.
The score was as follows -
Marc broke a clevis on his Fusion and was declared out;

Clint had a flat battery in his tx and was declared out but his lovely new M60 survived it's unsupervised landing,

Terry B had 2 Wild Things and a MiddlePhase - the latter he decided to land inverted to all of our amazement and it survived ! He was declared jammiest flier of the day although he maintains it was a planned inverted landing - we've asked him to teach us . . . .

I just brought my trusty Ninja which survived everything - I don't know how, but it did.

So, all-in-all we had a good day with the usual ups and downs you get with slope soaring - happy days -
See you all soon
Rob