A busy day at North Hill today with lots of visitors: Anja, from Germany, who has spent the last year in New Zealand and learned to fly there came to find out if the soaring is as good in Devon. Also Nick, a member at Culdrose, sampled some flying in our Perkoz. Together with several Family and Friends flights and the usual booked Trial Lessons the instructors' work was cut out.
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| North Hill (Lisa Humphries) |
The day started overcast with launches unable to reach full height. The cloudbase slowly lifted and a the cloud began to break up around lunchtime. Some local soaring became possible but getting away from the winch was so uncertain that even maestro Mike Fairclough elected to take an aerotow. In the late afternoon and towards evening the sky around North Hill unexpectedly became very buoyant. Mark Courtney and new member Adam in the DG505, Lisa Humphries and newish member Marley in a K21 and Rowan Smith and really-not-so-new-member Ruth in the Perkoz were delighted to find climbs up to nearly 4000 feet.
Congratulations to Geoff Lawrence, who achieved his first solo aerotow, and to Rowan, who accomplished his first first-solo-sending since becoming an instructor.
Congratulations to Geoff Lawrence, who achieved his first solo aerotow, and to Rowan, who accomplished his first first-solo-sending since becoming an instructor.
Pete Startup 230 whizzed round the Club 100 then went for a bimble out to Witheridge to check on Pete and Jill's runner beans while Pete and Jill in OL went for a womble over Exmoor (but just missing Dunkery Beacon as the clouds were lower over the top).
The Pawnee, Rotax Falke and Fred all visited Dunkeswell to take part in a world record attempt for flying 200 types in a day.
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| Stu Procter in Fred from chase plane Rotax Falke (James Hood) |
