With another windy day ahead, everyone was wrapped up warm, except Dan Hender who braved it in shorts (I, thinking he had some idea of weather, followed suit!) fortunately I was holed up in the warm Launchpoint! Dave Perriam, Peter Smith and Nick Jones spent the morning getting the grass-cutting tractor back in service.
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| A busy grid (Simon Minson) |
All four two-seater gliders were walked to the west end, along with a Junior, and Duty Instructor Mike Sloggett, with help from James Flory and Simon Minson started working their way down the very long flying list.
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| North Hill in the Devon countryside (Simon Minson) |
The first launch was taken at 10:24am, and flying continued throughout the day. With a mixture of simulated cables breaks, currency flights and training. Even Ron and Dan Johns got 711! out and managed to achieve 59 mins from an aerotow, then made Dan Hender walk back across the airfield, when he kindly took their car across.
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| Great work from the golf buggies (Sally Hender) |
A short break was taken for lunch, and flying resumed, Robert Lee being put through his paces with Simon Minson, and others being tested so they can do mutual flying, there was therefore a large number of simulated cable breaks and an awful lot of walking! Chris Warnes successfully flew the Trial flight visitor. We even had a launch stopped, due to a gold child’s ‘0’ balloon floating across the airfield! - That’s a first.
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| Aerotowing the Perkoz (Simon Minson) |
Thank you to everyone who helped on the airfield, and stayed to the very end. - Sally Hender
