Total madness!
After three days of nearly no flying everyone was ready to get airborne but with about 40 new pilots on launch who just arrived when the rain broke out it was madness!
I witnessed at least five near misses off launch, which easily could have been mid-airs, there was one reserve thrown without incident.
Cloudbase was very low at 1,800 ft over launch, and the clouds grew very dark and tall and was shutting down the lift at times.
I had Ricjk and Susan hovering around base for about 30 minutes as i waited to get airborne and it was only 5 minutes later i was at base with about 20 other gliders and many of them went insdie the cloud and as i was trying to avoid them i was sucked inside the cloud too. I took a headed away formt he others and after about two minutes i popped out in the clear and called Rick and Susan to follow and we got a nice line over to Sacamacate and there we hooked into another core that got me back to base but Rick and susan where´nt able to get there so we glided off toward the trash dump and then toward Jovans and there i got hovered by a large black cloud and had to fly away twicew to get down.
We had a nice evening flight as well,
The next two weeks will be very busy air traffic but after a few days at least a few of these pilots will figure out the traffic and it should get less crazy.
Good weather conditions look to be ahead.
David.