Today looked to be another good opportunity to get some more flying in. The kit was all out and checked by the 9:20am as requested.
James Flory carried out the morning briefing as he was kindly filling in the Duty Instructor role due to illness. The busy clubhouse then partially emptied and flying commenced at the west end of the airfield. It was great to see many newer faces on site today.
As it was my first full duty as DSGC launch marshal, I was keen to do my best and help to get everyone flown. However at times it felt like this - But Blindfolded!
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| juggling everything |
…..But with a mix of training, check flights, card renewals, and spinning, it kept everyone busy.
We were grateful that Peter Smith supported James with some extra capacity for more instructional flights during the day, a super effort by all.
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| Lots of visitors today (Mark Courtney) |
Dan Hender, Tom Sides and Stuart Procter flew the visitors today, as well as some friends and family flights. All seemed to have a good time. Thanks guys.
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| Ellis Goodland - first taste of gliding (Lisa Humphries) |
The new Junior members started training on the ground tasks at the west end, while at the east end, a big thanks goes to Gordon Hutchinson for super-long winching stints in order to allow even more training. Two more winch drivers signed off.
Hopefully the more people we get signed off on all the tasks, the more we will all collectively gain. Good progress today, keep it up.
Special mention to Joel Roulson, as he managed to do stints in Launch control and then the winch, as well as flying the Junior for 45min, and also to James for instructing all day. Great work thanks.
Good to see Mark C at the club again, as the CFI , he put in a stint in the K21 with Simon Leeson flying back seat, and then was seen flying the tug! Great news.
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| CFI back in the air (Rich Roberts) |
So what about soaring opportunities? Depending on the time you launched it was either very good locally or you found nothing but down.
Josh Howlett having resoloed on Thursday, then followed up completing his 1st 1hour flight.
A day that was hard work in the air trying to soar, and a busy day on the ground trying to get into the groove and make the logistics all gel. A demanding day, but we got there….lets do it all again.
- Rich Roberts (ed: and a big thank you to Rich on his first DLM duty and he did it all day without flying - magnificent job!)
