Butser South

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Is it your level?EntryPGHG

The club's gentle training and testing slope, a soft south-west incline for finding your feet.

Facts from the Sky Surfing Club guide · pilots are adding the local read

Before you goThe incline is so shallow that a modern glider easily overflies the normal bottom landing in fair air, so plan your descent.

Today at the launch8 Sept

Working window

SSW–WSW

WindW 10mphHeadwind

Gust1.9×Rowdy

Climb0-1m/sLight

Cloud base2,300ftWorkable

Context only, never a go-call

6 facts checked against the Sky Surfing Club guide

The read

A gentle SSW through WSW slope; it can suffer rotor when the wind is off to the west.

Is it my level

CP rated, and a CP must keep to local flights to stay insured. The natural place to build hours.

Launch

Launch immediately below the wooded area, with a backup slope to rig on.

Landing

Down the slope into the bowl, or a side landing onto the slope.

Getting there

Through the gate east of the radio mast off the A3, or the QECP car park via the underpass.

The catch

Shallow ground means easy over-shoots of the bottom landing, and rotor in any west in the wind.

Who do I ask

Sky Surfing Club steward this site. The takeoff and landing photos, the full rules and who to ring live in their guide.

Crew chatLive3 messages

Sana M.

Sea breeze filled in early and it got rowdy, packed up by 1.

Mara L.

Proper thermic today, climbs to 4 up off the spine. Couple of us still up.

Priya S.

Bit cross and gusty this afternoon, worth waiting for it to back off after 3.

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