Sat 17th December

There was still a lovely covering of snow on the airfield this morning, .......

Still snow on North Hill (Mike Wilmott)

.......and with the Duty Instructor finally arriving at 10:00am (Mark Courtney, caught in traffic and two empty Costa cups later!) there was a short list of seven on the two-seater list and seven on the solo list. 

Reduced price aerotow day (Sally Hender)

 The decision was made to set up the airfield for aerotow only just by the clubhouse. Flying commenced at 11:30am, with four instructors (Mark Courtney, James Flory, Stuart Procter and Steve Westlake) taking their turns with the pupils, and three of them sharing the tug! 

Rob Hender with Mark Courtney (Mark Courtney)

 
We had one interesting landing over the fence, and the snowman was nearly finished off by VG, so an eventful day in all, thank you to everyone who mucked in and helped on the chilly airfield. 

Sun setting on a short day (Mike Wilmott)

 Eighteen launches in total, with Lisa Humphries and Stuart Procter having the longest flight of the day with 20 mins. Everything was packed away by 3:30pm as the sun started setting. - Sally Hender