Today it was
obvious that the members have had enough of the festivities so not much encouragement
was needed to go flying, a call by the Chairman and reduced price aerotows were
more than enough. A K21, DG505 and Junior were towed to a more central, but
less soggy, launch point location. Lisa was thanked for her enthusiasm by
finding herself being looped by Sir Chris on the first flight at 9.30 this
morning.
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| Nice gloves Ray! (Lisa) |
Rowan was disheartened
with conditions but H5 Matt’s enthusiasm rubbed off on him after he diligently
advised him of gliding rule number 2: “Always Rig.” Rowan (CLM) and Matt (H5)
were both pleased that yet again this did not fail having fun out to the West,
although challenging, the weather conditions provided some classic winter flying
conditions for those in attendance.
The blustery southwesterly wind made launches and approaches spritely, thankfully there was an
abundance of Instructors to put the students through their paces, even James
H was seen in the back of a 2 seater! Tim P was keen to make use of the
cheap tows and had several aerotow practice flights with JB in the back
encouraging some aeros for good measure. A mix of boisterous thermals, southerly ridge and soft wave were available during the day with H5 Matt making
the most of all of them with the longest flight of 81 minutes.
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| Above the clouds (James H) |
After having
had his fill of Pawnee driving, Guy handed over the keys to Stuart, who then got
to experience the sporting approaches over the trees whilst Guy went gallivanting
to the south coast with James Hood in the Falke. All the toys were washed and
put away with everyone having flown and satisfied.
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| Winter sunshine (James H) |
The Treasurer should be happy for some last minute end of year flying and the CFI
for the large number of members able to maintain currency! Thanks to everyone
for turning up and providing a lovely atmosphere, Happy New Year and see you
all in 2016! - Matt H5
(ed: although we haven't given up all hope of flying on Thursday yet!)
