The Club was a tad quiet at the start of the day with just a small group of members - a little surprising bearing in mind the generally positive weather forecast but with rain interrupting the day on several occasions perhaps others had a better crystal ball than those there today
With Peter Field as Duty Instructor and Guy Adams and Mike Sloggett as the booked Instructors for the day both K21s, the Perkoz and a Junior were soon having daily inspections completed whilst the winch run was set up for the forecast wind direction of ‘generally West’ but maybe a bit of South and a bit of North during the day - as it happened it was good that the windsock is designed to blow in several directions as that is just what happened throughout today!
With Peter Field as Duty Instructor and Guy Adams and Mike Sloggett as the booked Instructors for the day both K21s, the Perkoz and a Junior were soon having daily inspections completed whilst the winch run was set up for the forecast wind direction of ‘generally West’ but maybe a bit of South and a bit of North during the day - as it happened it was good that the windsock is designed to blow in several directions as that is just what happened throughout today!
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| Family Bennett lunch bubble (Paul Summers) |
The flying list made steady progress during the morning with Jack Raybould having some check flights before completing further solos in the K21 whilst Matthew Howard had the “fun” of eventuality demonstrations and practice.
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| Drying the gliders after another rain shower (Fiona Bennett) |
After quite a delay for a heavy rain shower to go through Paul Summers took the opportunity to reacquaint himself with the Perkoz after which it was time for lunch.
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| Well done Jack converting to Junior (Mike Sloggett) |
With lunch completed the afternoon had the odd interruption for rain going over the airfield but saw Jack convert to the Junior whilst Dave Perriam completed some more solo flights in a K21 - then also converting to the Junior.
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| Well done Dave converting to Junior (Mike Sloggett) |
Paul Summers and Pete Warren completed some mutual flying in the Perkoz whilst Peter Field and Dave Cowley flew the Junior and Paul Medlock flew a K21 solo.
There was just time for Mike Sloggett and Pete Bennett to take the Perkoz for the last flight of the day after which it was time to put the gliders away.
Thank you to all for the teamwork to help others fly today - particularly Dan Hender and Gordon Hutchinson who winched all morning and afternoon respectively, without flying. - Mike Sloggett
There was just time for Mike Sloggett and Pete Bennett to take the Perkoz for the last flight of the day after which it was time to put the gliders away.
Thank you to all for the teamwork to help others fly today - particularly Dan Hender and Gordon Hutchinson who winched all morning and afternoon respectively, without flying. - Mike Sloggett
