In the morning there was thick fog coming up from the valley and thick clumps of orographic leading to a slow start. However, once the day started to pick up, with the light winds it was a great time to get in some solos for the new solo pilots.
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| Early morning mist finally clears to allow flying to commence (Mark Courtney) |
Throughout the day, there were lots of aerotows with the Pawnee having to be refueled midway through the day. Over the day, there were 38 winch launches and 13 aerotows, the longest flight being 25 minutes from Peter Smith with a 3000 ft tow.
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| Capturing some nice clouds (Mark Courtney) |
While this was happening Regional Examiner Simon Minson was checking out Adam Berrisford from Mendip Gliding Club for Instructing.
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| Sunsets at North Hill (Mark Courtney) |
To finish off the day.......
Eurofox 915iS G-GNHL (Jill Harmer)
....... the new Eurofox was flown by Ian Mitchell familarisation (prior to starting tug pilot conversions,) astonishing onlookers with its climb rate whilst doing touch and goes into the sunset. - Joel Roulson
