Saturday 25th May - Open Weekend

Well for once the weather performed for us, and we had a long day flying for 10 hours introducing 60+ visitors to the joys of gliding. The launch rate was a little slow as we only had three two-seaters for most of the day, until the Puchacz from Yeovilton turned up to help out.  Almost eveybody had short soaring flights, which were limited to 15 minutes.

A busy launch point

A few private owners took aerotows to make use of the spectacular conditions. Ron and Daniel in ASH25 711 flew 449 km to Roadford and Candover. Pete St Discus 230 flew 303 km Whiddon Down - Salisbury, and Wyn in LS7 W7 after an early field landing nearby had a second attempt trying the Club 100.

Mike Jardine from Brentor popped in achieving  his 50 km flight to complete his Silver Badge.

We also welcomed a group (45) of aviation enthusiasts who arrived en-masse in a coach who are on a Bank Holiday weekend tour of south west airfields but they only had time to take photographs of the gliders.

We welcomed our local MP, Neil Parish, who had a guided tour of the gliding club.

Thanks to all the Club members who helped today, and ended up the day with a fish and chip supper and some karaoke.