Club view -
Despite clouds and bright sunshine, soaring proved difficult from low
winch launches until lunchtime, when a batch of private owners took
aerotows and disappeared. We welcomed John back after his skiing incident
with the grandson. Keith had the longest local soaring flight of 2 hrs 12
in the Junior. 71 launches in all with 9 private gliders out.
Course view -
"And the good weather continues..."
After 3 consecutive days of
launching from the southeast corner, today saw the launch point being
set up in the northwest corner, based on both the prevailing wind and
the forecast for the morning - with the long walk to the other end in
the pleasant warm sunshine, making a change on the previous
rather chilly mornings.
After
a few launches it became clear that the wind was moving round to the northwest so it was all change with gliders being either flown or towed
to the other end. After
that 'hiccup' in the day's flying it was then non-stop flying all day
apart from a stop for lunch, when the Thursday flyers were pleased to be
able to 'take over' the K21s for an hour or so.
By the end of the day all the course members had flown and continued to make progress with various aspects of their flying .
The second achievement of this course week was a first solo ' for Nat, Well Done Nat.
Ed
decided to take advantage of his new 'solo' status and took a K21 off
for a soaring flight of just under an hour climbing to cloudbase at just
over 3000' - not bad for only his third solo!
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| Nat, congratulated by Peter F |
With another good forecast for the last day of the course the prayers to the weather gods have clearly been answered... - Mike Sl
Cross-country view -
Matt in ASW24 M5 had the longest flight Tiverton E, Sturminster Newton, Mudford Gate, Taunton of 240kms in just over 4 hours. Ron & Daniel in ASH25 711 completed Beaminster, Sturminster Newton, Mudford Gate for 188kms. Pete St in Discus 230 had a slight technical problem so a later start but still breezed round the Club 100.
In the evening the Course members, Instructors, Helpers and some 'hangers-on' enjoyed a course dinner at the Keepers Cottage.
