Cloudbase was at 1000ft first thing, but it steadily improved through various cycles of low cloud, until eventually the frontal remnants to the north disappeared. Initially it was John Pursey who was at the top of the leader board with 47mins in the Junior.
The sky was regularly cycling (Mark Layton)
The clouds were cycling regularly and there were groups of pilots with ~30 min flights followed by mass landings throughout the day. Robert Lee in the Astir managed over an hour albeit from an aerotow, and Eric Alston more than doubled that but with some use of the iron thermal to cover the difficult times. It was good to see the hangar completely emptied with additionally 7 private gliders joining in.
Launch queue (Mark Layton)
There were some trailers cleaned and hangar door washing by some of the Junior members.
Finished the trailers, started on the hangar... (Josh Funnell)
Whilst training and solo flights continued with James Flory, Peter Smith, Stuart Procter and Phil Morrison sharing the two-seater flying, with some more new members returning after their Trial lessons / recent courses.
Congrats to Josh Funnell IFP (Stu Procter)
Congratulations to Josh Funnell for completing his IFP acceptance checks with CFI Stu. Thanks to James Smart for looking after the Trial lesson visitors today. Pete Harmer was tuggie and got some bonus aerotows when the winch threw a problem with the gear selector.
Charlie practising his back seat flying on Dan (Josh Funnell)
Thanks to everybody for mucking in today and getting through the long flying list. - J&P
