According to North Hill weather station there was 15mm of rain on Saturday and 58mm of rain on Sunday, wiping out flying on both Saturday and Sunday, including our fully booked trial flights. The North Hill travellors to Portmoak fared no better and were also rained out, so it was good to have some alternatives.
Stewart Henshall showed new member Paul Ives (who recently took part on the September Course) the great facility of the DSGC simulator. Pete Harmer gave a detailed walkround of K6 DRE (which is in the workshop for Annual inspection) to Ivan and Joel Roulson. Joel is our latest Junior member who has recently soloed and converted to the Junior and will hopefully spend many happy hours soaring the K6.
On Sunday evening, the DSGC Condor regulars lined up on the virtual grid at Kent GC, in order to attempt the task of Challock-Heathfield-Canterbury-Challock in club class. Contrary to usual, the conditions were absolutely epic with some thermals reaching 7 knots and a cloudbase of around 6000 feet which led to very high speeds round the task.
Some of the pilots had some slightly low moments however everyone managed to get round bar Mike who decided that since he'd never visited Canterbury he'd like to have a closer look. Overall we had a brilliant evening of flying. Thanks goes as usual to Chris Warnes for task setting and also congratulations to him on winning today's task. - Connor Williams
