Some courses fizzle out after the delights of the Thursday night dinner,
but this course ended on a real high!
The placid conditions made it a
perfect day for early solos and so, like an "Olympic Super Saturday" when the
medals keep coming, course members kept on soloing.
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| Andreas with a cheesy grin |
Just
before lunch, Andreas and George V did their first solos within a
couple of launches of each other and after a suitably festive meal
carried on with more of the same.
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| George (left) congratulated by Paul |
Towards the end of the day, Ray B joined
the illustrious list...by re-soloing.
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| Ray (left) congratulated by Paul |
Ian followed up
his re-solo yesterday by converting to the Junior, clocking up seven launches in the day.
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| Meanwhile Glyn continued to make good progress in the K13. |
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| Many congratulations to everyone for achieving their goals. |
Thanks
to the weather, this course probably surpassed the previous one, with almost
150 launches in the week, 14.5 hours in the air, two first solos and two re-solos.
Thanks to Paul and
JB for the back seatery and to helpers Les, Dick, Nick, Tom and Jonathan
for the winching and all the other sundry tasks that kept things
running. - Jonathan
