What a glorious day we had, the Club was buzzing with lots of members experiencing full on Aerobatic training with Martin Woolner and John Sillett following last week's scrub due to the weather, thus keeping Simon Leeson busy in the Tug plus of course the Trial lesson visitors and some private gliders setting off on various tasks. Even the CFI managed to get some solo time in his own glider for a change.
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| Nice sky (Simon Leeson) |
James Flory covered JP's morning shift and I took over at 12:30, it was non-stop for the next 5 hours and we managed to fly everyone so lots of smiley faces. Dave Wojnar renewed his red card, Jorg Beasley who recently flew on a course week had a couple of flights, Andreas Kraemer refreshed his skills, Marley Chinn had his last flight with us before venturing to Portmoak (which will be his local club as he is starting his studies at St Andrews University) and Dave Albasiny had a nice long flight thermalling up to cloudbase several times.
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| Lisa and Dave (Lisa Humphries) |
At 6pm, we hosted some Trial lesson visitors from the Porsche club who unfortunately had their evening cut short last week due to rain.
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| Porsche Club visitors enjoying the pleasant evening weather (Simon Leeson) |
Thanks to the members who stayed on to make this happen, the Porsche Club visitors were absolutely delighted with their flights.
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| Spot the Gliders - busy in |Devon (Jill Harmer) |
Whilst the Competitions up country were tasking down to Devon, our slightly delayed start meant our planned tasks changed to fallbacks. Pete Startup 230 headed off east (turning Dorchester, Bullington and Ansty Cross for 300Kms) and returned 4½ hours later after a few tricky moments - "Too many long glides, low points
and slow climbs. Then the ground sucked me down and tried to eat me. I escaped from the abyss and had a nice run home on a sea breeze convergence. Funny
old day.". Eric Alston completed 165Km Knowstone - Sherborne, and well done to Rich Roberts who was spotted struggling back to Brentor.
Pete and Jill Harmer in OL wombled around dashing along some good convergences.
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| Good convergences set up (Jill Harmer) |
Congratulations to Paul Medlock in HMS for completing his Silver distance to Eyres Field. Martin Bennett enjoyed his longest flight yet in DG1 just short of 3 hours.
It’s getting to the end of the summer - but what a summer we have had, and hopefully the forecast will come good next week to enable us to fly the last of the Trial Lesson evenings for this year.
When it is busy we rely on everyone to make the day run efficiently, today was a great example of the Club pulling together and thanks to everyone for making it a great day out! - 20 aerotows and more than 40 winch launches in total. - Lisa Humphries
Update from Two-seater Comp. at Pocklington
Saturday was Day 3 the best and the final day of an inauspicious flying week in the Wolds. Duo Discus DD3 flew 388Km at 74kph and placed 11th overall.
Team Eagle BBB flew down to Kirton on Lindsay but fell short of getting back to Pocklington by 3.5Km. But Congratulations to Team Eagle for Best Wood for another year. - Nick Jones
Update from Two-seater Comp. at Pocklington
Saturday was Day 3 the best and the final day of an inauspicious flying week in the Wolds. Duo Discus DD3 flew 388Km at 74kph and placed 11th overall.
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| DD3 trace |
Team Eagle BBB flew down to Kirton on Lindsay but fell short of getting back to Pocklington by 3.5Km. But Congratulations to Team Eagle for Best Wood for another year. - Nick Jones
