Another very busy Wednesday with a long flying list and great deal of enthusiasm, the gliders were quickly walked to the southwest corner where a quite brisk northeasterly icy wind was blowing with some determination.
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| Sparkling sky (David Clements |
The now commonly worn green uniform (Dickies one-piece suit stocked at Mole Valley Farmers) was much in evidence by the more informed, some members preferred to shiver huddled behind the LPV.
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| Thermals and green suits (David Clements) |
Brian Knight, our newest member had a good day and was getting excellent advice from all quarters including three flights with John Sillett to start off the days flying, Jeff Teberham finished his yellow card checks with John Street.
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| Long shadows (David Clements) |
The thermals started briefly to bubble up to give the lucky few a taste of better things to come, Geoff Lawrence rounded off the day by finding some wave near the north ridge and had the joint longest flight of the day (14 mins), Robert who usually tries to the get the longest flight of the day realizing he was outclassed used the tug as an excuse not to compete.
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| Last flight as the canopies started misting (David Clements) |
We had three two-seaters in use all day and a Junior with four instructors on duty everyone had as much flying as they wanted, we finished flying about 4pm just as the canopies started to mist up, a very rewarding mid-winter day's flying. - John Street.
