With the ground equipment and gliders all DI'd and the airfield readied for launching from the east end the wind tempted to have us change ends before we had even started! Thankfully it remembered the forecast at the last minute and started to strengthen from the SW.
Messrs Turpin and Smith did most of the heavy lifting - and no doubt sweating - working their way through the flying list in what would best be described as increasingly moist conditions. No less than 17 training flights with some extended flight times courtesy of a reasonable abundance of thermals - albeit thermals that increasingly lacked clouds as the day progressed.
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| Peter Smith with Paul Ives (Peter Smith) |
Yours truly kept himself busy flying the 3 Trial Flights. Pete Startup managed the longest flight of the day making use of a convergence that got him halfway to Ilminster … and back! Nick Harrison had a couple of flights in JDD, as did Geoff Lawrence in HES and Kevin Fairburn continued to build his hours in HMS.
Thanks to Stu Procter for working on the Eurofox which managed to behave itself for most of the day. A full and productive days flying all rounded off with tea, cake, ice-cream and beer in the clubhouse afterwards. - Shaun Dayman
