A crisp and solid airfield greeted us this morning, but with the temperature due to rise during the day and with the wind dictating flying from the west end, it was decided to take minimal vehicles up the spine of the airfield only. So I logged from the silver vehicle, with just a couple of retrieve vehicles, one Junior, the Perkoz and the K21, HCX taken to use. (Thanks to Ian Mitchell with help from JB for completing the Annual).
Duty Instructor James Flory took the first flight with Stuart Thomson, with Dave Perriam and Chris Warnes sharing the Junior. Peter Smith then also helped with the two seat list, with Stuart Procter as our tug pilot.
We stopped briefly at 11:30am for lunch with Vicki as the cloudbase dropped (I can definitely recommend the chicken and vegetable soup). Returning to the airfield at 1pm, finishing the flying list by 2.30pm, giving us time to clean the gliders of the accumulated mud!!!
Meanwhile several members were building the logstore outside.
Building the logstore (Sally Hender)
Coffee, cake and a roaring log burner were then the draw back at the clubhouse.
At about 5pm the clubhouse had emptied, and Paul Medlock rallied a small team of us to help rearrange the furniture along side the log burner. The bookshelf was moved to the briefing room and everything else pushed up towards the wall, giving a more useable space in the corner.
The Chairman doing some housework (Sally Hender)
Thank you to Paul Medlock, Nick Jones, Dave Perriam, Graham and Cheryl, Rob and myself. -Sally Hender
