Considering the size of the flying list yesterday, today there was a noticeable drop in members who turned up first thing. However, with no catering, everyone was at least helping get all the kit out!
Duty Instructor, Mike Sloggett aided by DLM Gordon Hutchinson set up the airfield at the east end, and he then started the two-seater flying list, ably assisted by Ron Johns. With a mixture of of winch launching and aerotows flying progressed quite efficiently. We had a stop for lunch at 1pm, as there were so few of us to run the field.
Launch point (Rob Hender)
The two booked Trial Lessons enjoyed their experiences and Paul Summers even managed to squeeze in a walk-in flight, much to the gentleman’s delight. We also had a visiting pilot Andy Aveling in a Tiger Moth arrive just after 2pm, which attracted a lot of interest.
Andy Aveling flying in (Amanda Jordy)
The afternoon continued with lots of requests for aerotow training, keeping Simon Jordy and Peter Warren very busy. Steve Lesson and Stirling Melhuish both going solo aerotow and Chris Woodward refreshing and resoloing aerotow. There were 12 aerotows in total.
Simon Jordy in Pawnee (Amanda Jordy)
Simon Minson (SM) also enjoyed trialling his new gel coat!
SM refinished (Amanda Jordy)
The Eurofox was active later in the day, with Ian Mitchell and Stuart Procter putting it through its paces, it looked pretty impressive from where I was sat.
A pretty productive day in all, thank you to all that helped make things run smoothly. - Sally Hender
