A later start this morning. Dave Perriam was out at 7am this morning remaking the 2nd winch cable to ensure we could all fly today after replacing the first cable on Wednesday. Thank you Dave!! The first flight setting off around 10am.
The second August course (Tim Petty)
Good Westerly launches to 1500ft.With rain/thunderstorms forecast for early afternoon the 'three Js' (Joel, Jake and Julian) got underway with further solo flights. Mike Fawcett, Tara Ashwood and Luke Stabb continued with finessing their pre-solo flying. Joel missed out on his first 1hr flight, by mis- hearing on the radio that he could have stayed up rather than come down for lunch! Mike Fawcett finished on a high having a soaring flight of over 20mins before an early lunch was called due to impending change in the weather.
After lunch, decision was made to call it a day for flying, gliders all packed away at 3pm just before the rain set in for the rest of the day!
A big thank you to our instructors Pete Smith, Mike Sloggett and our helpers, Dave, Brian, Tim and Kevin for getting us up in the air, their encouragement and patience too!
A good course week crowd where we all mucked in to ensure we maximised the day's flying. - Mike Fawcett (ed:back to pick up where he left gliding a couple of years ago)
