What a day! It started
with the forecast northwesterly wind being totally cross and with a slight tailwind,
after the first launch (900ft) the Skylaunch broke down, so it was
decided to get the Supercat out but the battery was flat so it was
decided (look away now Tom) to have reduced price aerotow launches.
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| Waiting for the storm to pass (John Street) |
As
there were frequent hail storms it was decided to have an early lunch,
after lunch the next problem was removing members from the warm embrace
of the clubhouse, Tuggie Peter Warren didn't need much persuading and
soon had the tug out and ready to go.
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| Hail storm to the south (John Street) |
John
Street and Vince McCloskey took the first tow which was quite lively, the lift was
very strong and the K21 was soon at nearly 5,000ft weaving about making
sure to avoid going too near the storms.
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| Vince and John at 4000ft avoiding the storms (John Street) |
Fired
by the success of the first aerotow James Hood, Pete Startup and Eric
Alston soon had their gliders rigged and set off on their respective tasks.
James
went round the club 100k, Pete liked it so much he went round twice, Eric
had to start his engine after getting to Tiverton,
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| Storm at Tiverton (John Street) |
William Pope and Dave
Cottingham made good use of the Falke and had a long flight with the
engine off I expect. Thanks to Peter Field (standing in for John Sillett) who was flying the other K21 and the Junior
FZF was well used.
Most of the flights were about a hour, we managed 11 aerotows. - John Street
