The start of the 2nd Brentor trip of the year began at about 8am with Mike B (DGS) and myself getting the parachutes out of their storage room. Later followed by a few Brentor juniors helping us get the gliders out of their hangar.
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| Brentor Church (Jack Sewell) |
After the gliders had been DI'd, everyone headed over to the clubhouse for the daily briefing by Duty Instructor Peter Howarth and a fairly quick visitor briefing by Gavin Short.
After the briefings, the DSGC pilots headed up to the other end of the airfield whilst the Brentor pilots brought up the gliders.
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| DGS Launch control (Mike Horwood) |
After the gliders were brought up to the launch control (a lovely bus with a 360* view cabin) aerotowing started with Mark Courtney piloting the EuroFox first.
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| Simon Jordy - first time flying at Brentor (Mike Horwood) |
After a few flights, Simon Jordy took over tug duty. Mike Sloggett and and Steve Westlake were today's DSGC aerotow instructors.
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| Brentor grid (Mike Horwood) |
The North Hill pilots were; Josh Howlett who achieved a 40 minute flight in the K8 with weird conditions at that point of the day, Mike Sloggett who spent all day instructing as well as Steve Westlake, Mark and Simon who did amazing tug duty all day, Dave Perriam who decided to fly solo in the K13, Jack (me) 2 seater training achieved 35 minutes, Chris Mew did 2-seater training with Mike, Chris Warnes flew in North Hill's old K13 CCY and Mike Horwood had 28 mins in their K13, with David Sewell who didn't fly but helped out when needed.
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| CCY new colour scheme (Jack Sewell) |
There were a few thermals today with the longest flight being 46 minutes, achieved by Jamie Young DGS. There wasn't too much wind today so a couple of DGS juniors went solo in the K8.
An average day for Brentor but normally without the tug!
Thank you DGS for your amazing instructing and super welcoming and friendly members. Definitely worth going.- Jack Sewell (first-time blogger)
