Saturday 29th September 2001
Report from Tony Moore
After a promising SW forecast Ron Smith and I decided to head for Ringstead,
happy in the knowledge that the top landing was now open for HG.
On the way I got a call from Ron who confirmed what I'd
suspected, that the cloud drift was in fact WNW. So a diversion to Bell was
called for and when we got there it was just about do-able, in fact a PG was
thermalling nicely and heading over the back.
I wasn't convinced and after 30 minutes it went really
light and off to the west so back to plan A. I arrived at about 14:30 and I
took off about 45 minutes later, and enjoyed my best day at Ringstead so far!
It was fairly breezy and the orographic kept worrying us
but never got bad enough to force a landing, in fact it made the flight even
more spectacular. I spent almost 2 hours floating between 1,000 and 1,400 ft
asl gob-smacked by the view. Where was everyone else? I used a Fuji compact
zoom camera with slide film (scanned at processing).
Tony Moore (PG - HG convert!)
(OK -
The page says 2002, and the report says Sept 2001. Tony sent me this ages and
I accidentally filed it without posting it - so, as an apology and since there
is nothing else happening - with winds of 60mph at Ringstead this weekend -
here it is for all to enjoy! DD)
 John Alder clearly above cloudbase |
 Looking East towards Durdle Door |
 John Alder |
 Looking west towards Weymouth |
 Bandit at 3 o'clock |
 A clearer view of Durdle Door (and my caravan! DD) |
 Ron Smith and anon PG |