Another early start at North Hill, with eager pilots setting up the field and getting out the gliders before the 9:15am briefing. However the weather wasn’t quite playing ball, again, with low cloud and a slight drizzle! The surprisingly short flying list was started just after 10am by James Flory, standing in for a poorly Duty Instructor, with the morning DLM, Hans Jenssen, having his work cut out with limited experienced members on the airfield. Extended circuits were the initial flights, but these slowly became longer as the day progressed.
North Hill Airfield (Simon Minson)
Simon Minson and Simon Leeson helped in the second K21 and Perkoz respectively, with both Juniors in demand with the solo pilots. Flying continued through lunch into the afternoon as the instructors needed to leave slightly early. This was quite a stretch as the airfield became less populated as the day went on. Chris Warnes flew all three of the Trial lessons, with great success looking at their smiling faces. As James left, John Pursey kindly stepped in for the final few flights, enabling us to more or less complete the list. So by 5pm everything bar one Junior was packed away in the hangar. Thank you to everyone who went above and beyond today, (you know who you are).
Throughout the day I was selling sweepstake tickets for the Euro 2024 Football competition, good luck to all those that participated.
Bumblebee was towing (Chris Dimitrov)
At 6:30pm Ian Mitchell returned to North Hill to continue Alan Rappaport's tug pilot training in Bumblebee. A few of us stayed into the evening to help facilitate this. He started the session with three two-seat aerotows alongside Ian, then continued with five solo tows, completing his sign off by 9pm, just as the sun was falling below the tree line. Well done Alan, you can come back tomorrow to be our tug pilot for the day!!!! - Sally Hender
