Sat 21st May

 With a plethora of junior members present first thing, the average age of the membership was temporarily halved until a few of the regulars arrived to push the figure towards its normal level, even though things ran as smooth as ever. A number of the juniors undertook most of the airfield ground tasks with some getting signed off by the end of the day.

Congratulations to Connor Williams - first solo (Jill Harmer)

 Flight of the day goes to Connor Williams who was sent solo by James Flory after the normal checks. Now 16 years, having only started gliding ten months ago and completing just over 70 flights it is some achievement - Congratulations.

Busy launching gliders and signed off winch driver having a break from the exams - well done Connor (Mark Layton)

 Launches to the west in the light mostly southerly wind were constant all day and those lucky with the timing were able to have soaring flights. It was not easy to get away from a winch launch with the amount of sink around but Stewart Henshall in HMS managed to complete the new club 100 in reverse order (NH2-NTA-KNO-NH2) and Andy Williams in FUN disappeared over towards Tiverton for a few hours both finding the higher cloud base easier to work with than that above the airfield. 

John Sillett also reacquainted himself with a Pilatus B4 sharing it with Alan Turner for a couple of flights each. It was a steady day with 42 launches, a couple of which were aerotows.
 - Mark Layton

Evening soaring on Condor -  after a nailbiting  (live streamed on YouTube) final Race 7 of the Virtual Sailplane Grand Prix 2022  from Zar, Stewart Henshall (GHK) came 2nd in his race, and waits for the final countback to see if he qualifies for the Final.