As glider pilots we gain great experience from visiting other Clubs whether to fly different gliders or to simply fly from another airfield with different scenery. Today the weather played fair and allowed us to undertake some aerotows both with DSGC members yet to visit Brentor, the home of the Dartmoor Gliding Society, and some making return visits to continue gaining experience.
Mark Courtney drove up to North Hill to fly the EuroFox down to Brentor, bringing Peter Smith down with him arriving soon after 9am. Meanwhile Mike Sloggett had arrived at Brentor earlier to liaise with the DGS instructors as to how the airfield would be set up and to work out a plan of who would be flying which gliders.
A different view of Devon (Mike Sloggett)
Briefing completed the first aerotow was launched around 10am with DGS kindly allowing Mike to use a K13 to provide Robert Lee with an opportunity to complete his first flight from Brentor ahead of doing some towing in the EuroFox later in the day (with Robert reminiscing about his younger days at Kelly College as we flew over it!).
DGS K13 (Mike Sloggett)
With Peter Smith and Mike sharing the DGS K13s in and amongst the local instructors also taking aerotows in the K13s and the Puchacz, various DGS private pilots took the opportunity to aerotow to maintain currency, - and Dave Perriam took the DGS Astir on aerotow to build on his previous experience in flying from Brentor.
DGS Astir (Mike Sloggett)
With Shaun Dayman and Nick Harrison also taking their first flights at Brentor the latest ‘working together with another gliding Club in Devon’ day which benefited all involved from both Clubs.
What a nice day (Mike Sloggett)
Early afternoon saw some increasing cloud cover and an evident lowering cloudbase so the decision was made for the EuroFox to return back to its hangar at North Hill with Mark and Peter completing the last DGS glider aerotow before ‘disappearing’ into the skies to the East of Brentor and arriving safely back at North Hill mid-afternoon.
13 aerotows for the EuroFox (Mike Sloggett)
A great day all round, thank you to Dartmoor Gliding Society for their usual welcome and teamwork during today. - Mike Sloggett
