Pete's forecast was for another gloriously blue sky day with light winds and only a remote possibility of any soaring from the local hot spot.
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| Blue sky day (Hans Jenssen) |
But the day had started a little foggy in the valleys, with the airfield out in the sunshine.
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| Arriving at North Hill (Hans Jenssen) |
Whilst waiting for the surrounding fog to clear, the Thursday working party set to picking stones.
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| Stone picking party (Mike Horwood) |
The hangar was emptied and the launch point was soon set up starting with some simulated launch failures until it was judged safe to start aerotowing as well. Today the single seater list and two-seater list were equally long, and Hans Jenssen set the 8 mins circuit to be beaten on the first Junior flight.
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| Busy Club launch point (Mike Sloggett) |
Training and solo flying continued side by side all day, alongside the 3 Trial lesson visitor flights. By the time the list had gone round once, Hans managed to find the hot spot on the sunny ridge on his second Junior flight and claimed the 36 mins longest soaring flight. Wooly and Seb Mounoury also found the same spot for 34 mins in K21.
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| North Hill in all it's glory (Peter Smith) |
Congratulations to Ray Dodd on his persistence in achieving his Bronze having satisfied Pete Harmer today with the final part of his flying skills test.
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| Ray Dodd completes his Bronze |
With a complete team of Instructors and Tuggie, we completed 43 winch launches and 12 aerotows for the 23 members who flew (Apologies to those who have to work!). - What a glorious day with that lovely North Hill hotspot with the sun and wind on the ridge late afternoon.
After flying, another work party of George Sanderson, John Borland and Rob Rand, installed some LED Battery indicators for the Perkoz to hopefully remind members to swap batteries during the day. Great team, great day, thanks all - J&P
