What a change from recent days and weeks... A pleasant start to the day with sunshine and less wind. This brought out many hopefuls, all desperate to get into the air again. Even better, we even found some soaring, mainly in ridge lift but later in some thermals too. High cloud came over fairly early on heralding the next lot of rain for tomorrow, but it only served to keep things on the cool side today.
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| EuroFox Tug Pilots (Mark Courtney) |
Much was accomplished, with 5 Tug pilots checked out by Ian Mitchell and now able to aerotow in the Eurofox (Stuart Procter, Mark Courtney, Simon Jordy, Robert Lee and Peter Field) which will probably speed up the transition somewhat. Well done all.
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| James Flory Full Cat congratulated by Graham Morris (Mark Courtney) |
Big congratulations also to James Flory who passed his Full Cat Instructor evaluation with Senior Regional Examiner Graham Morris.
In all 45 glider flights took place and even Tom had a smile on his face . Meanwhile Kevin & Stewart (with assistance from Peter Smith) spent their day in the simulator room, working on an upgrade to the controls whilst the power supply unit is being replaced. It will be out of action while this takes place.
Thanks also to Julie and Beth on their first day in the Cafe, who produced a very tasty Leek and Potato soup, to warm us up. - Chris Warnes
News from Dan's trip to South Africa
Bit embarrassing at the moment as the gliding weather hasn’t really kicked in yet.
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| Dan's first flight in South Afica NS4 (Steve Clark) |
Our first flight I wanted to be at least 500kms but an inversion killed it and made for a very weird day, now 8/8 cloud and virga, forecast to be thunderstorms . Instead introducing Dan to SA cuisine, sheep’s tails last night, biltong today, bobotie tonight and we are planning on a half a sheep’s head in a few days ! He seems to be coping .... Steve Clark NS4 (ed: watch them on glideandseek)
