Today was an interesting day, with a need for enthusiasm. With people turning up bright and early at 8am the decision was made to wait for the cloud to clear.
Peter Smith was keen to get constructing, so the team of us gathered down at the new club trailer shelter and began erecting some wooden beams. With lots of umming and erring, the decision was made to get the gliders out on an aerotow-only line.
Dan Hender being the first to launch and showing good signs of lift (in total had 55 mins), training began with the two K21s . A patch of rain emerged, grounding the gliders for over an hour. Shortly after the rain came to a halt, gliders were aerotowing again . With everyone helping out on the ground we were able to get another 2 and a half hours of gliding in.
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| Congratulations to Simon Jordy (Mike Sloggett) |
Congratulations to Simon Jordy who finally got the weather to resolo in a glider - a number of years (20) since he last instructed at the Club.
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| 14 aerotows today (Mike Sloggett) |
At around 6pm, it was time to pack up, all the gliders were being packed away and the keys were being turned in the retrieve vehicles . Until … it was Launch Control's time . The battery on the Cable Retrieve Discovery had died. With everybody watching, Peter Smith plugged the Powerbank into the Disco in attempt to start it. It wasn’t powerful enough, so Freeda was collected from the hangar to give it the extra boost it needed . Sadly, she didn’t have enough power either, so the Discovery was towed back down to the hangar along with the Launch Control trailer.
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| Can Freeda help? (Luke Stabb) |
Overall today was a good day with a total of seventeen launches with three of them being motorgliders. Thank you to everyone who was very patient today and stayed around. - Luke Stabb
