To ensure the 5 Junior members didn’t lose interest, the CFI kindly set a quiz on how to interpret and understand a flight manual much to their uncontained delight!
Soon the wind dropped enough to allow the gliders to be towed to the far end of the field. With low cloud the pilots needing cable checks got to fly first. When the cloudbase lifted the flying list started properly.
Hans Jenssen getting checked out by CFI (Mark Courtney)
We had 3 trial lessons today and two “friend and family” flights which kept James Smart and tuggie James Flory busy.
Low clouds to the north, circuits to the south (Mark Courtney)
The instructors slowly worked through the list, slightly hampered by the main wheels of the gliders getting jammed by the freshly cut grass. This resulted in long delays whilst we dug the grass out!
Digging the wet grass out of wheelboxes (Mark Courtney)
With the list being so long and everyone getting tired we unfortunately had to cut the number of flights to two. A very long hard day but very worthwhile.
Thanks to everyone who worked tirelessly to ensure that everyone flew. - Mark Courtney
