A ‘slow’ day at the Club in more ways than one today. The weather forecast suggested a day of flying but not necessarily very exciting and this affected, perhaps, the number of members who turned up to fly - by 9:30 we just about had enough to operate so attention turned to the MT hangar where the winch was unwilling to start. With a decision made that we would operate aerotow only pending a call to someone from International Rescue (Stirling kindly answered the call during the morning) Robert Lee as duty tug pilot started to get the Pawnee ready for flight. Meanwhile the airfield was set up in optimistic hope that the winch would be available later in the day with Launch Control in the North East corner.
Both K21s and a Junior were brought out of the hangar and taken across to the launch point - with the Club Treasurer evidently pleased to hear the winch start and therefore removing the need for reduced price aerotows. James Flory nevertheless took an aerotow with a Louise Dowding to give her some flight time ahead of the April course planned to start tomorrow.
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| Grass cutting stripes on the airfield (Mike Sloggett) |
And then with the winch in position at the far end of the field, and under grey skies, James and Mike Sloggett started to work their way through the training list. As the day unfolded Pete Warren and Paul Summers helped out with the flying list, with training and check flights completed in and amongst some Junior flights.
Well done to Mike Horwood for completing his Field landings with Mark Courtney in the Rotax Falke, - Nav test next.
Well done to Mike Horwood (James Hood)
With so few members a decision was made to stop for lunch and then after a short break due to some flights lost at the start of the day it was on with the flying list. By late afternoon everyone that wanted to fly had flown so the gliders and ground equipment were all put away.
Thank You to all involved today - great teamwork, and a particular Thank You to Stirling, especially from Tom! - Mike Sloggett
