There weren’t that many members at the club this morning first thing, possibly due to the Bank holiday or half-term. However, with the duty instructor, John Pursey, running the action, the airfield was set up and the first launch taken just inside the cheaper rate time at 9.58am!
JB arrived within the hour and took the second K21 to help with the two-seater training list. (A big welcome back to JB on the instructing roster.) With no afternoon instructor and JP unable to stay late, all extra help was gratefully received.
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| Launch point ready (Sally Hender) |
Simon Minson, helped out with card check flights and spinning, and James Flory arrived mid-afternoon and helped finish the list for another successful day of flying.
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| Blue skies (Stuart Procter) |
Tom Sides completed his Annual BI checks with Stuart Procter, and then entertained the Trial Lessons visitors with pleasant flights, with three happy visitors.
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| Phil Morrison, Andrew Logan, John Pursey and Nick Jones cleaning the tarpaulin (Sally Hender) |
And it was a great day for getting on with some more of those 'prepare for Competition Enterprise tasks' with several members helping to clean the tarpaulins for the Briefing hangar decoration, and Kevin Fairburn and Gordon Hutchinson checking out the briefing room projector mount. (More help will be required during June - please watch out for the calls.)
Everything was packed away by 4:30, with the last glider LRD, flown by Andy Batchelor enjoying the last flight of the day, and (edit to blog) he pipped Dan for the longest flight sneaking in 36 minutes.
Thank you to all the instructors who stepped in and helped complete the training list. All in all great team work on the ground. 37 winch launches and 6 aerotows - Sally Hender
