The appearance of the sun this
morning seemed to bring out a lot of members today. It also seemed to
help with organisation - gliders were ready to launch not long past
9am. With a missing K21, and two K13's earmarked for instructor training,
we were a smidgen short of gliders. One thing we weren't short of was
instructors - some were even spotted 'mucking in' to help launch
gliders. - Shocking!
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| Busy launch point (Will) |
Lots
of newer junior members were in attendance including Charlie, James,
Ellie and Laurence. Three trial lessons were flown, with Roly having
another return customer. Matt Wi and James F continued with their BI
training with Mark C and Stuart P. Congratulations to Peter Sm for completing the final final
final part of his instructor training with Simon M. Congrats also to Heather on red card currency. It was good to see Gordon back in the air.
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| Welcome back R37 (Will) |
Conditions
started off very calm with little wind and not a hint of lift as
suggested by a hot air balloon in the sky to the west. Things started
to improve towards the middle of the day. Roly managed 30 minutes on a
trial lesson from a 2000ft aerotow. A few winch launched gliders were
then noted at cloud base. Private gliders started to appear in the
queue. Andrew L in K6 GDE, Heather and Mike R in K6 DQS, Eric in G29 and
Pete St 230. Pete opted for a winch launch but 6 minutes later he was
back on the ground realising that an aerotow looked like a more sensible
option. This proved to be the case resulting in a 3 hour flight!
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| Captain Hood and Mrs Chair on the south coast (Lisa) |
Eventually
everyone on the list got a flight. Thanks to Mark C for flying Ben S
in the Rotax Falke when it became apparent a normal training flight
looked unlikely and also to the 'non-rota' instructors that helped out -
John Si and John St among them.
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| Last flight of the day (Will) |
A
pleasant autumn day in the skies with the last few launches into a
rather splendid looking setting sun finishing things off nicely. - Tim P
