At the morning briefing at 9:15am by duty instructor, James Flory he advised of a Blue card day ahead, with gusting winds. Simon Minson was also on site to assist with training, so he took on Richard Roberts and Paul Summers’ respective blue card checks and BI revalidation, while James started on the remaining five names on the two-seater list.
Thanking the Instructor for a rating card check (Paul Warren)
Just two K21’s were brought out from the hangar, and flying began at just after 10:00am, fortunately flying from the east end, so no walking involved. Logging training started for Rob Hender, as we needed someone when I was flying! At 1:00pm we stopped for lunch, as both James and Simon had to leave. Ian Mitchell then took over at 2:30pm and was able to complete the two-seater list.
In what looked like a challenging day, there was actually a lot of lift around, you just had to get through the launch and landing to enjoy it. We packed everything away by 5:00pm.
Thanks to the small but very efficient team who stayed the whole day and got everyone flown that wanted to. - Sally Hender
