Given the recent spell of variable weather this week was looking poor for Thursday and possibly Wednesday as well so Mark Courtney spotting a possible for Tuesday put out a call on Google group and it worked. The weather was flyable! Light ENE wind cloud base 2000ft plus with some annoying orographic which kept appearing and disappearing. Visibility was good with Dartmoor clearly visible in the west. A west end launch point was set up and the first flight (Fox aerotow) took off at 10:18.
Club Eurofox (John Borland)
The Winch was set up but the main demand was to get cleared for Aerotow behind the new Fox. The Fox launches were impressive despite the soft ground conditions The turnround time was remarkable. The shortest being 10 minutes between takeoff’s and a number below 15 minutes. The Fox can do it if we get our act together team!
At lunch time the very light wind decided to shift to a NW so a quick change of ends was completed and a quick visit to the Café. Thanks Julie for opening.
The Aerotow flights continued but with no demand it was decided to put the winch to bed early. In all we flew 7 launches and 14 Aerotows.
Thanks to Mark for organising the day. We cheated the weather!. Instructors. Mark Courtney, Chris Wool, Steve Westlake, Guy Adams, Tug pilots Simon Jordy, Mark Courtney and Robert Lee. Nine Pilots cleared to Aerotow Fox. Well over 25 members attended and everyone who wanted to fly did. A nice and successful winters day.
The list of pilots added to the “cleared” to Aerotow Fox is as follows :-
Wyn Davies, Paul Medlock, Chris Mew, George Sanderson, Andrew Pincombe, Roger Ellis, Nick Harrison, Barbara Fairclough. - John Borland
