A day of two halves, in the morning the day looked very promising and all the early flights had no difficulty staying up, we had a busy day lined up with two visitors from Mendip GC and three booked Trial lesson visitors who all arrived together.
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| John Sillett pre-flight briefing (John Street) |
To start with, the the cloudbase was approaching 3,000ft with strong and plentiful lift, John Street and Chris Warnes made the most of the early lift, Chris is being checked out to solo in the DG505.
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| Mike Wilmott with the early promising sky |
By the time we were ready to aerotow the visitors and after a small problem with the tow rope, the cloudbase lowered and there was rain on the way, so the aerotows became taster winch flights, with the aerotows put off for another day.
In the afternoon the cloudbase came down to about 1,500ft but the northwest ridge was was giving a little lift.
Phil Grant and Tim Petty were getting themselves back to solo after forced layoffs, Glenn Turpin looked after the visitors and John Sillett flew all the pre-solo pilots, a bit of a disappointing day after such a promising start but everyone flew. - John Street
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| Lovely evening weather at North Hill (Lisa Humphries |
The Wednesday evening club flying got underway with a much improved sky, and Emma Kendall and Stirling Melhuish both consolidated their solo flying from last week.
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| More solo flying for Emma Kendall (Lisa Humphries) |
Congratulations to Sam Flory, who was given some final check flights by Dad, James and then made his First Solo flight.
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| Congratulations to Sam Flory with James Flory (Lisa Humphries) |
Another great evening flying. - J&P
