Tues 29th September - Denbigh

After an uninspiring briefing which indicated there would be very little wind and therefore no wave or ridge soaring, our hopes for any soaring today hinged on the slim possibility of some week thermal activity around the middle of the day.

Waiting to launch (Pete Startup)

Some visiting turbo drivers eventually gave up waiting for the soggy looking clouds to look more inviting and launched - and didn't come back! 

Convergence over the town (John Pursey)

So all interested parties went for broke and were pleasantly surprised that the soggy looking clouds were in fact a sea breeze convergence which had set up conveniently over Denbigh town.

The Blue Eagle languishing in the sunshine (Tom Sides)

 Although bitty in places, those brave enough were able to head out West to the Conway valley 30km distant while others enjoyed local soaring around the convergences.

Another day of Denbigh surprises.  - Pete Startup

Mon 28th September - Denbigh

With fairly light winds forecast today it was never going to be epic but at least they had a Westerly element to them. A tow to just over 2000' dropped you in the standard Denbigh - Ruthin wave slot. the lift was weak, rarely more than a knot or so and the wave topped out at 4.500' but it was all very pleasant. Some of the turbo drivers tried exploratory runs out towrds Snowdon but really found nothing more than extensive cloud cover, The wave eventually fizzled out and attempts at flying the ridge came to nothing as the wind dropped but another very pleasant warm and dry day. - Pete Startup

Chris Gill showed why he is making a success of the Denbigh operation with another good car park briefing and a positive assessment of the sky - “it’s waving, I'm off to show you where”-  And he did!

With sensible use of the runway, uphill for single seaters, downhill for dopplesizter, the visitors were soon all in the air. The Eurofox tug was amazing in its speed of glider delivery, the local tuggies are good! The plastic gliders were shown the way by a K8 flown by Lashamite Tom Edwards. 

Climbing in the slot (John Pursey)

Lamentably, the Eagle driver took a seat in the Duo and revelled in the ability to motor upwind to try the next slot. With a clear upper and lower wave system divide, the sky shouted more than could be accessed easily. The Duo was climbing well in an upwind slot but a filling sky beneath forced a quick retreat down and home. 

 

Between layers (John Pursey)

A crowded ridge, very soft and a potential rush to land saw an early landing for the NHL team and, again, Chris Gill showed his worth with clear control of the field and radio, syncing up the landing order and getting gliders quickly off the end of the runway. 

 Forecast for the next few days, not great, but...it is Denbigh! - John Pursey

Sun 27th September

It was quite a busy start to the day with booked instructor training, quite a long flying list and a Full Rating test being completed for a visiting instructor from Dartmoor Gliding Society.

The wind was not quite as forecast direction-wise, but was definitely inline with the suggested wind strength. After a check by duty instructor Peter Field as to conditions at the other end of the airfield the decision was made that starting the day at the South East corner of the airfield was marginally better than starting at the West end!

So both K21s, the DG505 and a Junior were walked down to the other end of the airfield and with the strength and direction of the crosswind making it a straightforward decision of a Blue flag being hoisted.

Forest Glade (Mike Sloggett)

 During the morning, the booked training and general flying list made suitable progress with the card colour meaning that a number of the solo pilots ‘switched’ to dual flying with an instructor. There was a suggestion of limited thermal activity mixed in with potential wave but neither aspect provided anything other than 'more down than up' so simple circuits were the main outcome of the winch launches.

New grass is looking good (Mike Sloggett)

During lunch, it was hoped that the wind direction might move a tad to the West to allow a change of ends but a return to the launch point indicated that this was not to be.

So it was more of the same until mid-afternoon, when the wind eventually decided to move around more to the West, so a change of ends was the only decision which could be made.

Perkoz on aerotow (Simon Minson)

 With the launch point back in the ‘traditional’ South East corner of the airfield it was now a question of completing the remaining training for members on the flying list and the booked instructor slot.  Congratulations to Rick Wiles Dartmoor GS for successfully completing his Full Cat test with RE Simon Minson. - Mike Sloggett

Denbigh Day 2

Briefing from Chris Gill was veering more to a “go enjoy the local countryside - from the ground” kind of brief rather than the aerotow sell we were used to. A brief window of thermals of 1-2 kts in a NW but a bright sunny day. Andy Davey in his Libelle and Nick Harrison with the DG200-17 were up for a sightseeing trip and surprisingly Pete Startup Discus shook off his negative thoughts about the day to push out on to the grid too! 

"Those that decided to throw money at another aerotow, out of nothing came an unexpected couple of hours scratching in weak blue thermals to 2,500' amsl. Beautiful warm cloudless day so a real challenge to stay airborne - great fun." -Pete Startup

With gentle local soaring going on to very modest heights, Team Eagle took to the second best 4x4 by far to follow Bill Crease’s route along the NW facing slopes down the Lleyn Peninsula. 

Views back into Snowdonia on the way home from Aberdaron (John Pursey)

 Fingers crossed for later in the week and the Duo doing it by air. Would be a damn sight faster...  - John Pursey

Condor Racing

The advantage with Condor is the ability to set the weather, and the 7 Sunday evening racers went on an expedition to Long Mynd with a great 20knot westerly wind. The task was to sample the ridge to Long Mynd N and Long Mynd S a couple of times after familiarisation. Everyone had completed their homework set by Stewart Henshall and the task was won by boy racer Dan Hender. The final twist was a denied landing at Long Mynd, which meant mostly successful field landings in the valley, followed by a talk round the circuit at Long Mynd by Dan. - J&P

Sat 26th September

The sun came out first thing, but didn’t bring the warmth with it! So in chilli? conditions the gliders were taken out and the airfield set up, with the handful of ever hopeful members who turned up!

Crystal clear skies over Devon (Stuart Procter)

The launch rate was slow due to challenging conditions, and problems with the winch. But good use was made of the time in between, with Josh Funnell giving Jayden Pavy-Errington a thorough safety briefing.
Most flights averaged 5 mins, until Ruth Comer took her turn with Peter Smith, and she then set the bar high with a 16 min and 18 min flight!! The instructors, Stuart Procter, Simon Minson and James Flory then all had a go, but still couldn’t manage more than 8mins!

Cheryl's first flight for 8 years (Rowan Smith)

The only one who came close was Cheryl Smith in her booked training slot with Mark Courtney, with 13 mins, welcome back to gliding Cheryl, girl power!!!!!!! With so few wanting to fly everything was packed away by 3:30pm. Thank you to the Juniors for helping on the airfield and not even getting a flight, especially Dan Hender who winched all day. - Logger blogger Sally Hender!! 

Denbigh

 Day 1 of the Autumn 2020 Denbigh expedition and it was the usual, “you should have been here last week” messsge from the locals! Chris Gill did his briefing outside in the car park to a socially respectful set of visitors but there was not much to cheer. A northerly with convection but not what was ordered really with scant local ridge soaring opportunities. Pete S in 230 was the first NHL team member off whilst the rest of us took on board tea and biscuits and watched the very first glider launched struggle.

In a moment of rashness I asked Chris G about the hills at the bottom of the valley near the Llantysilio club. He assured me they were amazing and would work a treat so a plan was hatched for a one way trip for the Blue Eagle. Following the Duo into the sky, the Eagle towed south and fully committed to a run to the hills up to the Horse Shoe Pass. On arrival they had none of the obvious steepness of the hills up the valley and Ben and I struggled until a consistent run up and down a lower but steep set of hills allowed establishment of a base camp within striking range of the Llantysilio club. News was in that the Duo with Phil and Nick was back on the ground at Lleweni, Pete and JB was wearing a groove in 50 metres of the Bodfari pass slope so the game was on to stay up.

The Eagle heading south (John Pursey)

As a sign of the times and the benefit of flying a 2 seater, Google had already produced the local club phone number and a text conversation was under way about the best bit of the ridge!

Blue Eagle  and refurbished trailer (John Pursey)

 Several hours later AXJ arrived into the NWGC field with the trailer enroute. The locals were very friendly having packed up because it was a little sporty but waiting to see the arrival of the blue visitor.
For those not minding a retrieve, the north facing Llantysilio ridge is an interesting option for Denbigh expeditions faced with a northerly. Not as epic as the aerotow selling Chris G would have you believe but at least it gave us ridge soaring on Day 1. - John Pursey

Condor Racing 

Following another successful exploration on Friday afternoon  - this time - the mountain area near Lake Garda. Stewart Henshall with a new slant on 'Lead and Follow' with Dan Hender and David Clements, the next Sunday evening race is planned for a ridge task at the Long Mynd. Trailers ready! Join us if you can. - J&P

Thur 24th September

 The weather forecast was rather pessimistic with strong gusty winds and thundery showers, but today was one of those days when the forecast was wrong, and those who who turned up were rewarded with some enjoyable flying.

The first flights saw launch heights of up to 1900ft with gentle descents until the bumpy circuit. After lunch it became soarable with good climbs to 3000ft in thermals, and the expected rain at 14:00 didn't materialise at North Hill although there were plenty of cunimbs in the vicinity.

Gliders carefully parked in case of squalls over lunch (Jill Harmer)

 It was good to see Liam Vile back flying like he'd never been away. 

North Hill with showers in the distance (Mike Sloggett)

 Thanks to all  for getting everyone in the air today. - 24 flights in total, longest flight was Mike Sloggett and Dave Perriam 45mins - J&P

Sun 20th September

A crisp sunny blue sky awaited the members arriving at North Hill today - and although the North Easterly wind was quite fresh it was not that cold, although it was evident that more layers were going to be needed than in recent weeks.

With Simon Minson as Duty Instructor, supported by Guy Adams, John Sillett and Mike Sloggett, both K21s, the DG505 and a Junior were soon having their daily inspections completed whilst the winch was set up in the North East corner of the airfield to allow a traditional launch run from the South West corner.

No surprise that ‘Blue’ was the colour of the card rating set by Simon for the start of flying -and with Simon looking after the general list whilst Guy and John progressed the booked instructional flying.

Simon Minson pleased to be back in the rear seat with Ruth Comer (Simon Minson)

 Although the wind strength looked “interesting”, from the first few flights pilots reported a fairly straightforward launch. circuit and landing albeit a need, as ever with the West end of the airfield, to not go too far back for the approach...

The morning’s flying saw good progression with the flying list and with many of the Instructors and members having been on the airfield from early on a decision was made to have a quick lunch break - during which, in view of the wind strength, the Junior was returned to the hangar.

Great blue sky (Mike Sloggett)

After lunch the flying list continued to progress whilst John and Jack Raybould were able to complete Jack’s long awaited College Project using the DG505 for various flights on the winch and aerotow.

Late afternoon with the flying list nearing completion gliders were starting to be flown down to the other end of the airfield - 33 flights in total.

Best flight of the day was by Guy and Jonathan Erskine  who managed to find the elusive wave to the North East of the airfield.

As ever thank you to those members who were on the airfield from start to finish today in some cases giving up some of their potential flights to ensure that others got into the air at least once. - Mike Sloggett

Geoff Lawrence launching at North Hill (Condor)

In the evening, the Condor Racers took on a new challenge, as Stewart Henshall had generated a pretty accurate local airspace scheme, and had set up a cats cradle of local turnpoints to explore without the benefit of a PDA. This required a bit of homework for the detail of the turnpoints, avoiding the penalties of the airspace and some real navigation for a change, alongside the old concept of taking photographs (screenshots) of turnpoints. Boy racer Dan Hender won the day, but to be fair Stewart hung around at the back to help coach others where needed. 

Stewart, Chris Warnes and Geoff Lawrence sharing a thermal (Stewart Henshall)

The general feeling was that it brought a new dimension to the Condor forum which was more challenging and enjoyable.  Thanks to Matt Howard for hosting the task, and although his own Condor race failed, he completed the task in a Lancaster! 

The DSGC Condor racing group is steadily growing in popularity, regular tasks on Sunday evenings and other adhoc callouts on What's App (Dan, Stewart and David Clements explored the mountains of Northern Italy and Slovenia on Friday afternoon in a lead and follow) - Come and join us, you can watch a stream on Discord or Spectate on Condor - J&P

Sat 19th September

 So what makes a memorable day at the club? Certainly the summer ridge,  post cold front day and scores of people rigging for cross-country but sometimes the poor forecast, brave few, days become memorable as much for the reminder that the sky is full of invisible energy. With the BBC threatening storms from France grazing the Southwest, it was little wonder it was a small crew on site when the duty instructor arrived. A fresh to strong ENE wind and the site was set up with a single K21. 

 

Interesting medium level clouds (John Pursey)

The sky was interesting with curious middle level clouds of all types, the poor weather still way to the south showing as high level masses. Blue skies over the The Blackdowns as Pete Smith and duty dawg JP debated whether instruction was possible. A couple of met trips ensured and it was...interesting! Not the roughest weather either of us had experienced but the upper wind speed and levels of sink were...interesting!  It was gusting up to 30kts at the launch point. At altitude, forward progress over the ground was minimal at 50+kts on the ASI. Having decided that it was not a day for trying to instruct the small crew at the launch point were offered experience flights to demonstrate how large wind gradients and rotor levels of sink are fine with respect, height and airspeed. No great soaring but memorable! (Hopefully Adam, Ruth and Paul think so!)

 

K21 at launchpoint (John Pursey)

 

Clearly it was waving and the sky was on the move. Trouble was the “up” was simply not anywhere near the top of the winch launch. Periods of greater than “10 down” over Forest Glade suggest it must be going up well somewhere else! Unfortunately no tow on offer and an early end to the day. The obvious become obvious in the sky by mid-afternoon, wave clouds lining up downwind of the hills.

Altocumulus Lenticularis (John Pursey)

 Thanks to Alan T for duty LM and skilled driving of the winch on a challenging day, Paul M for driving the LV and Mark W for keeping the field going. - ,JP

Thur 18th September

 Clear blue sky greeted everyone with a brisk northeasterly wind, the launchpoint was set up in the middle of the field at the west end in accordance with the new plans for the field levelling. 

Launchpoint set up (David Clements)

 Pete Harmer was looking after the Booked Training and Peter Smith, Mike Sloggett, Mark Courtney and Lisa Humphries ran down the two-seater Flying list which was swelled by the Blue card conditions.

 

Aston Key keeps Junior busy (David Clements)

Aston Key winched all morning, and then had a Junior available all afternoon.

Whilst the K21s were busy on high launches and extended circuits, Ron Johns and Chris Wool took the DG505  downwind to Kentisbeare to explore the wave opportunities. They found a short beat at the "fishponds" which was working - just - at low level, but it picked up as they got higher. They enjoyed the longest flight of the day of 1:32mins, having been invited to stay up over lunch. 

DG505 returning from another attempt to contact wave (David Clements)

Later attempts to contact the wave were not so fortunate without the risk of a landout - maybe the wind had changed a little?  31 flights in all, thanks to everyone for keeping it running very smoothly. - J&P

Wed 16th September

 Considering the weather there were very few of the Wednesday regulars at the club today but plenty of other members turned up more than enough to keep John Sillett busy all day, and to keep the two K21 and a Junior used non-stop.
Nick Jones gave very precise instructions for the cable direction,  we used the aerotow run so we could keep all future field levelling free of any angle that would compromise any newly seeded areas, the wind was northeasterly veering to east during the day and although the flying was very pleasant there was no thermal activity the longest flight being 10min, all those who wanted to fly flew.

Junior waiting to launch (David Clements)

Chris Warnes continued his back seat flying in KEK.
I get the impression that Glenn Turpin was not attracting much sympathy about the 65 knot wind that he is having to put up with on his Greek island autumnal hideaway. - John Street.

Sun 13th September

Lovely sunny start to the morning, but would it be any good for flying? Only one way to find out.....
Two K21’s, a Junior and the Perkoz were taken from the hangar, and the first launch was taken at 9:59am (sorry Tom!) for a reduced rate launch  by Trevor Russell! There followed numerous check flights and long retrieves for Trevor, Nick Redfern, Dave Cowley, with a few solo flights scattered in between.

Charlie Broderick converts to Junior (Mike Sloggett)

After breaking for lunch, flying was resumed at 2pm with Charlie Broderick taking his first flight in a Junior, and Nick Redfern back solo again.

Great to see Nick back solo again (Mike Sloggett)

With not much working in the way of lift it was circuit’s for the pilots, so Simon Jordy got some air time as members decided aerotows were called for!!

Simon Jordy Pawnee Maestro (James Hood)

After a genuine winch rope break at 4pm (thank you Stirling for your splicing skills) which led to a delay in launching, check flights continued for David Wojnar (thank you to Ian Mitchell for your impromptu instructoring!) and a flight for Heather Clarke and further solo’s for Tim Butler.

Thank you to all who helped on the airfield, especially to those that didn’t fly. - Sally Hender

 

Denbigh Expedition on Condor (Stewart Henshall)

In the evening, the  regular DSGC Condor Racers were joined by some new recruits and to celebrate the increased interest went on an expedition to try the Denbigh Ridge...... more info to follow

On Sunday evening a number of intrepid virtual pilots hooked up their virtual trailers and headed to North Wales. This was the first time the DSGC Condor group had headed away from North Hill, to run the famous ridge at Denbigh. An impressive total of eight pilots and three observers made the trip.

In a fresh Westerly breeze the group took healthy winch launches and headed back to the ridge. Some familiarisation was required for those unfamiliar with ridge flying, A few unwittingly drifted behind to the lee of the ridge, luckily not too low to recover.

Eventually the group assembled at the start line at Denbigh Ridge South (DRS) and made a  slightly hesitant start, running up towards Dyserth (DYS). True to life crossing a number of gaps in the ridge required caution - but it was easy for those who stayed high enough.

In fact some decided they should take advantage of numerous thermals on route, incurring the wrath of the supervisor. The weather conditions will be revised for the next ridge session!

All (who did not experience server connection issues) successfully completed the task of 112km - twice up and down the ridge. 

Getting back (Stewart Henshall)

Dan Hender was fastest completing four legs  in just over one hour (despite his preoccupation with thermals), however his achievement was slightly tarnished by immediately landing out!

The group returned to land at Denbigh after an enjoyable evening’s virtual flying. More trips to interesting flying sites around the country will surely follow. - Stewart Henshall

Sat 12th September

A cold front cleared  early morning, and  with James Flory and John Sillett looking after the booked training flights for Charlie Broderick and Jacob Brook  both started with some extended circuits. Charlie also completed two solos.  With a gap in the booked training, Ashley Thomas and Karen King took over the K21s with  John Sillett and Phil Morrison respectively. 

K21s on Booked training (Jill Harmer)

Pete Startup 230 was the only private glider out and set off immediately on a Club 100 - Tiverton Crewkerne. 

The second batch of booked training  got going for Josh Batchelor and Andreas Kraemer with a now very soarable sky. The Junior meanwhile was kept busy by Paul Medlock, Alan Turner and Sandy Harrup.

Thanks to the three  Dads - David Brook, Andrew Broderick and Andy Batchelor  for keeping the launchpoint ticking over nicely. It was good to see Tim Johns back in the air after a busy moving period.  35 flights in total - J&P

Fri 11th September - Course Week

Despite the weather forecast suggesting a brighter day from late morning onwards in the end we had grey skies for most of the last day of the September Course Week. But with a high cloudbase and a light Westerly wind the lack of sunshine did not worry the Course members who all continued to make progress with the objectives they had set out at the start of the Course Week.

September Course (Mike Sloggett)

Both K21s and both Juniors were brought out of the hangar with the launchpoint set up in the North East corner of the airfield. And then it was on with the day...

Launch point ready (Mike Sloggett)

During the morning Sir Chris completed some more solos in a Junior, Ruth completed some solos in a Junior for the first time in a while, whilst Dave Perriam completed the remaining boxes to allow his progression to a Red Card  - Well Done all.

Well done Ruth - back in the Junior (Mike Sloggett)

Meanwhile Tim Butler was being given further opportunities to discover different parts of the airfield with Mike providing Tim with various eventualities to sort out. By lunchtime Mike Meatyard and Reuben Renton had completed more training flights with Mike and Peter.

After lunch Ruth and Dave completed even more solos in a Junior whilst Tim found other different parts of the airfield to land in as Mike provided more eventualities to maintain Tim’s focus.

Well done Tim solo in a glider again (Mike Sloggett)

Mid-afternoon,  Tim completed his first two solo glider flights after a gap of 40 Years - Well Done Tim.

Great course week at North Hill (Mike Sloggett)

And there was just time for Mike M and Reuben to complete some more flights (and of course Ruth and Dave too!) before it was time to put the gliders and ground equipment away

Five days out of five this week saw Course members enjoy flying each day, a big Thank You to William, James, Andrew and Graham for their help and support during the week enabling Course members and Instructors to get into the air. - Mike Sloggett

Thurs 10th September

Today was the first full flying day of the course with great results. A busy day was had by all, with course and club flying running together in harmony, using both K21’s both Juniors, the Perkoz and several private aircraft.

Improving sky (Jill Harmer)

Several course members took aerotows and lots of spinning and training tasks  achieved as a result by Ruth Comer, Tim Butler, Dave Perriam.

Hembury Hill (Mike Sloggett)

 The expected change to wind direction didn’t happen so a full days uninterrupted flying was enjoyed by all present from the West end of the airfield.

Course helper James Smart flies in for supper (Mike Sloggett)

 Pete Startup was a little ambitious (and late) in setting off for Tiverton, Sherborne, Beaminster, having turned short at Sherborne and diverted to the south for some sun, 230 landed at the Axminster Showground, fortunately the good field had been cut yesterday and was planned to be muck spread tomorrow.

230's field (Pete Startup)

The course fish and chip supper was a terrific end to the day, enjoyed by course and several club members in the cool evening air outside the Clubhouse. Thanks to Nick for ordering and collecting.

Looking forward to a good and clear last day of the course tomorrow which would mean that every day we flew a good number of launches even having started at midday on two days.

Let’s hope there are lots of good flying days to come. - Dave Perriam

Wed 9th September

Another day of two halves today - the forecast suggested that the weather would improve earlier than yesterday and that proved to be the case.

Dave and Mike replacing the reference marker (Mike Sloggett)

During the morning various airfield tasks were undertaken with Mike Sloggett, under the tuition of Peter Smith, converting to the tractor and roller combination disappearing off to the North West of the airfield for a couple of hours - whilst Dave Perriam and Mike Meatyard put the remaining ‘reference markers’ back into place and Peter Smith, helped by Josh Funnell and Charlie Stuckey ‘tidied up’ the communication box to the North side of the airfield. 

Josh and Charlie tidied the sunken comms box (Peter Smith)

Meanwhile with suitable optimism the ground helpers had set up the launchpoint and winch, together with both K21s and a Junior, all ready for flying to start when the anticipated better weather arrived.

Launch point ready (Mike Sloggett)

With lunch taken early afternoon the flying started and after which the weather just got better and better. Alongside the Course flying Josh and Charlie completed their Card checks in the Perkoz with John Sillett.

Improving  sky (Mike Sloggett)

By the end of the day Reuben, Mike and Tim  had made good progress with their training whilst Dave had also completed his Card checks and had a further solo in the Junior - with Ruth completing further solos in HCX and landing early evening after a short soaring flight another good day had by all. - Mike Sloggett

Tue 8th September - Course Week

Today, the second day of the Course Week, was very much a day of two halves.

A morning looking at as many weather forecasts as possible failed to find anything positive around the morning’s weather being likely to change from the grey skies and low cloud to anything different.

Grey skies initially (Mike Sloggett)

So it was on with ground school for Reuben Renton and Mike Meatyard with Peter Smith, whilst Tim Butler and Ruth Smith used the simulator with Mike Sloggett for some spinning refresher and recovery practice.

As well as the flying there is always something to do around North Hill so during the morning Peter Smith did some mowing of the “new” areas of the airfield whilst early afternoon Dave Perriam and Reuben replaced some of the ‘reference marker slabs’ which had been removed ahead of rotovating.

Putting the Reference Markers back (Mike Sloggett)

With an early lunch having been arranged ‘just in case’ this turned out to be a good plan - early afternoon whilst there was evidently still low cloud there was enough brightness around the airfield to suggest that some flying might be possible for the rest of the day.

Grey skies started clearing....... (Mike Sloggett)

And so it turned out to be the case - Peter and Ruth Comer completed a weather check flight which reflected that a full height launch was not quite yet possible. Not that the cloudbase affected Tim and Mike, as Instructor Mike decided it was time for both to find themselves in other parts of the airfield, through dealing with eventualities of various sorts.

Steadily and slowly the grey skies disappeared with now the bright shiny thing in the sky proving to be very bright and shiny particularly when turning final at the East end of the airfield.

The afternoon saw Chris and Dave ‘amicably discussing’ as to who would fly the Junior and when, whilst Reuben was able to enjoy some good height flights with Peter.

.....to blue (Mike Sloggett)

With Ruth also adding some more solo flights to end the day, with the last K21 landing at around 18:45, today was another day when the patience always needed by glider pilots was suitably rewarded.

A particular thank you to William Pope, Andrew Logan and Graham Barden who continued to help the Course members and Instructors well into the evening to ensure that as much as possible was achieved from today. - Mike Sloggett