A fresh start to the morning with quite poor visibility down the valley. All club gliders and ground vehicles had their daily inspection and were ready for the long day ahead. Briefing was at 9:15 where we decided to set up launch point to the North West corner. All gliders were towed up and ready for launch at 10:30. The wind had died down through the morning allowing for some really nice flights.
Lily Sanders-Page was given 4 practice launch eventualities which she had to deal with. Shortly after she was ready for her first ever solo! She did so well in fact that we had to tell her to come back down. She went again for the second time landing beautifully and waiting next to the glider with a smile that we could see from launch point - Congratulations Lily.
Well done to Lily for First Solo (Mike Sloggett)
James Flory and Mike Sloggett worked hard to lunchtime where we stopped for 45 minutes. Thanks to Vicki for making perfect food as always. The wind started to pick up over lunch which meant we had to change the card colour to yellow. Simon Minson took over from James Flory for the afternoon where there were some nice thermals but people weren’t able to stay in them unfortunately, however we pushed through the two-seater list and the single seater list. We continued through until 17:30, when we began to pack up all the gliders and ground vehicles. We were finished for just before 18:00 resulting in a successful day at the gliding club.
Many thanks to Mike, James and Simon for instructing throughout the day and to everyone that helped around the club today. Finally another congratulations to Lily for her first solo! - Adam Smyth
