After arriving nice and early yesterday and getting JDP rigged for Dan, we had an early start this morning for the first flying day as we needed to get the DG505 out of its box and rigged. We also needed to get John Borland's DG300 and Andrew Logan's ASW15 rigged. Mark Layton arrived with the Cirrus whilst we were rigging (after a 5.30am start this morning). Once done it was back inside for breakfast and a 10.00am briefing.
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Team Hender with Shaun DG505 (Simon Leeson)
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Rob Hender and Simon Leeson took the first flight of the 2023 Mynd trip in the DG505, and to be honest I was quietly thinking to myself we’ll be down soon. How wrong was I! Simon and I managed to stay airborne for an hour and a half, having thought about returning on a couple of occasions but deciding to stay up as we were having too much fun. Eventually we thought we really had better return so we dropped down from the 3200ft that we were at and landed, only to find that Steve and Mark had gone for a cup of tea.
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Great unexpected flight (Simon Leeson)
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Dan Hender JDP 72 mins lunch break then 70 mins, John Borland FAJ 172 mins, Andrew Logan FMS 128 mins and Mark Layton 477 54 mins had all taken launches.
After putting the 505 back online and shooing Mark and Steve out of the club house, they took a launch and had a 100 mins of flying.
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Get in then Mark & Steve (Simon Leeson)
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Shaun Dayman finally got his Mynd check flight (after Sally politely reminded the duty instructor he was second on the flying list) so he is ready for the rest of the week.
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Arriving Mark & Steve (Rob Hender)
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Whilst not flying, we all took turns with various tasks, wing running, hooking on etc and Sally spent most of the day logging! All the DSGC gliders were off the field and de-rigged or pegged down by 17:30 pending the arrival of Hurricane Nigel.
Helen and Dave served up the first evening meal of the week at 19:30, by which time we had been joined by Stewart & Su Henshall and Andy Davey.
Lets see how the rest of the week goes! - Rob Hender
