With Saturday washed out with the Coronation, and after Ashley's call on the Google Group last night for an early start there were several members at the club raring to go by eight. However, as we begun to get the ground equipment out it was noted that cable retrieve wouldn't start which led to us towing launch point out with the winch's Disco instead.
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| A quorum for the problem with the Cable retrieve Disco (Connor Williams) |
As the K21s were wheeled out of the hangar we discovered that HCX's wheel was so full of the newly mown grass that it wouldn't budge at all! This led to another delay whilst numerous members mucked in to rectify this. Once all the glider's were finally at the launch point (and just as we were thinking nothing else could go wrong) the phone system between launch point and the winch decided to stop working which led to us having a slightly slower launch rate than usual as we had to use the ground radio.
Removing the newly mown grass from the wheelbox (Connor Williams)
During the morning, flying cloudbase was reported to be about 1400ft with the longest flights being just over 10 minutes due to some reduced sink on the ridge. However later in the day the cloud began to break up which led to Peter Smith and John Pursey having the longest flight of the day in KEK at 64 mins. And Golf Buggy 2 joined in the fun! having to be towed back to the hangar. Thank you to everyone who helped today despite the various misfortunes that we encountered as we wouldn't have flown without you - 38 winch launches and 1 aerotow.
Thank you also to the several volunteers who answered the call for help with the Trailer storage structure and spent all day working with wood. - Connor Williams
