The forecast for today was poor,
you would have had to be an optimist to expect much flying, but on
arrival at the Club, we decided to give it a go, we took out the two K21s and a Junior hoping to beat the poor weather that was
expected later in the day. We
set the field up for a light Easterly wind avoiding some damage to to
the field so we positioned the launch point in the middle of the field.
A team led by Pete St. de-rigged the Junior KHA in preparation for its Annual inspection.
(Many thanks to Ian and Tom who spent the whole day cleaning and polishing the Junior on their own, a task not made any easier by the fact that the glider wasn't washed after flying on Sunday, because of the freezing conditions.) - Pete St
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| Ian helping with the polishing |
(Many thanks to Ian and Tom who spent the whole day cleaning and polishing the Junior on their own, a task not made any easier by the fact that the glider wasn't washed after flying on Sunday, because of the freezing conditions.) - Pete St
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| Pete checking for spares |
In
the meantime those hoping to fly were at the West end of the field
trying without much success to de-mist the canopies which were misting
inside and out, and also keeping a good lookout for the expected bad
weather.
In the event the weather played ball, the sun came out, we won the battle of the canopies and we started to fly. The weather to the South was low cloud and light rain, to the East there was fog, but North Hill stayed in sun for the rest of the day.
We
managed 28 flights and everyone had as many flights as they wanted,
after a difficult start to the day it turned out to be most enjoyable.
Thanks to Paul C for standing in for John Sil. - JSt
