Today was never likely to be a flying day, not due to rain but the strength of the wind!
Storm Amy certainly rattled the windows in the clubhouse, however we were safe in the knowledge that our new roof would not blow away!
The log burner was fired up “just to test it” you understand, and the clubhouse soon warmed up. I was covering for John Pursey today who is away with the rest of the North Hill nomads exploring Brave Heart territory way up North!
There was still some admin tasks for our record keeping now we are operating under SFCL, James Flory was soon seen beavering away in the lecture room preparing pilot records. The task would be shared later by Jill who spent the whole day with Pete labelling the pocket folders that will be housed in the new filing cabinet under the launch point. Thanks all!
Steve Westlake showing Sam the South coast run (Mark Courtney)
We had new temporary members join us today dad Shane and son Sam, they plan to join us when their 3 months membership runs out, so they were given the “full treatment”. Firstly some short lectures and then into the simulator, both made incredible progress, but Sam was outstanding!
Steve Westlake took over from me and continued training dad before heading to the coast to ridge soar in 25kts of southerly wind. - We simply must do this again for real soon!
Meanwhile Paul Medlock headed up a lumberjack team, James Hood, Ashley, Joel and dad Ivan, they spent several hours chopping wood and stacking logs in the clubhouse ready for colder days, (or when the log burner needs testing again).
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| Oktoberfest (Jill Harmer) |
Vicky was busy preparing food for the evening event, Oktoberfest, whilst Sally and Rob decorated the clubhouse with German flags etc. The evening was a great success, a wonderful spread of German style food, Lederhosen and Bavarian Tavern girls, Sally's quiz, Pretzel tossing and Stein holding (won by Paul Medlock 9mins 2 secs), and £80 raised for the DSGC Charitable Trust. - Mark Courtney
