Well, a massive thanks goes out again to James Flory for stepping into the breach and taking on the instructing for the whole day today.
The Launchpoint was set up at the west end, eventually, and with only a few stalwarts on the list just the two K21’s and a Junior were taken to the far end. Fortunately, all were experienced members of the club, so there were no problems for the Duty Launch Marshall Pete Startup, to allocate tasks. Flying started at 10:30am with a yellow flag up. The two earlier Trial Lessons were taken to the skies by Chris Warnes, thoroughly enjoying their flights. However, by 1:30pm the card colour was changed to blue, due to the choppy conditions in the upper air, so unfortunately we were unable to complete the hat trick.
We then had a problem with number two golf buggy giving up the ghost mid-way through a retrieve, which then meant the Gator and buggy number one, were required to retrieve them both!
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| Rescuing Golf Buggy2 (Emma Flory) |
Flying continued into the afternoon, with pm DLM, Andrew Logan, taking over the vest of power! As we were making our way to the bottom of the list we had a genuine cable break, which Paul Medlock kindly spliced delaying proceedings slightly. Flying then finished with the last launch at 4pm, but that too was a cable break which meant a later finish than hoped for. However, everything was packed away by 4:45pm, and a good day was had by all.
Thanks to everyone who helped on the day, and stayed until the end to pack away. - Sally Hender
