It was a lovely start to the day, but with another 9mm of rain overnight, and a howling crosswind, we were expecting a late start. Even with a number of Thursday regulars away, there was a good crowd assembled with hope of flying later.
The morning was spent preparing the ground equipment and sweeping out the hangar, followed by a briefing from Pete Harmer on local airspace rules for ticks in boxes for Dave Perriam, Ashley Thomas and John Davies. George Sanderson and Mike Horwood spent some time looking for missing volts in the Perkoz wiring system.
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| Assembling the new leveller (Nick Jones) |
Peter Smith and Nick Jones returned after collecting a rather large meccano kit and set to assembling it in preparation for the next stage of field levelling.
After lunch, with the sky still looking glorious, at least 3 instructors made various field inspections, but all came to the same conclusion that the airfield had not recovered from the overnight rain, and any use would damage the field. So reluctantly the ground equipment was all returned to the hangar for another day. - J&P
