The first members arrived nice and early before 8am keen for a lovely forecast for the day ahead. The two K21’s, the DG505 and a Junior were taken out of the hangar and taken the long walk to the west end.The first launch was taken at 10:04, by Duty Instructor James Flory and Charlie Broderick, just missing the reduced rate. With CFI Stuart Procter helping with the flying list and the Junior being made use of, we started the day with mainly circuits.
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| West end launch point (Mark Layton) |
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| Visibility was quite poor (Dan Hender) |
The sky seemed to improve from lunch time, with much longer flights, Dan Hender having the longest at 44 mins and even then sideslipping down! Until that was Pete Startup took a launch, although landing out at Smeatharpe 113mins - probably doesn’t count!
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| 230 checks out Smeatharpe (Pete Startup) |
Flying continued, with Rowan Smith satisfying RE Simon Minson that he hadn't forgotton how to instruct after 2 years of just solo flying, and subject to CFI acceptance we look forward to seeing Rowan in the back seat again....... and it was good to see JB flying with Phil Morrison.
The Junior was in demand all afternoon, but flights become shorter again as the day progressed. We finally packed everything away by 5pm everyone having flown that wanted to, a great day, with some challenging conditions, thanks to everyone that helped. - Sally Hender
