Sun 28th November

With the weather much improved from Saturday, and the lanes cleared of debris from Storm Arwen, there was a large turnout of members early on. So with four of the five gliders brought out of the hangar, and a group rigging KEK, and the Juniors got K6 DRE rigged, the airfield was ready and the grid was full by 9:30am, we even managed two launches before the magic 10am cheap rate cut off!

A busy November day (Mike Sloggett)

 

Duty instructor Ron Johns worked his way through the two-seater flying list, while the Juniors and K6 were kept busy, and the Perkoz was used for IFP training by Stuart Procter and Chris Warnes, congratulations to Chris on completing his CFI acceptance.

Blue skies and puffy white clouds (Mike Sloggett)

 Unfortunately HCX was declared U/S after a few flights, with concerns over the cable release, thank you to George Sanderson and Peter Smith for their efforts with this, and bringing it back into service before the end of the day. Mike Sloggett took over as duty instructor for the afternoon, finishing the two-seater list in good time. Well done to Andrew Batchelor, for taking on and achieving the task of learning Launchpoint Control.

James Hood back in a glider with  Stuart the Boss (James Hood)

 
Both Trial lessons were flown with Robert Lee taking the 12:30pm and Chris Warnes completing his first ever at 2pm. Both were extremely happy with their experiences, and the visitors enjoyed themselves too!

Thanks to everyone today for their efforts a total of 61 flights, a great achievement in November! - Sally Hender