A warm sunny day with a strong gusty wind from the north provided very challengining flying conditions. Instructor Bob Pirie flew on manfully providing check flights and training in these difficult conditions.
Trevor managed to scrape 23 minutes flying the Jantar1. And then John Blaskett showed everyone the way to do it with a flight in the K6 to over 3800 feet. He described the lift as a smooth 2 knots in long lines. He had found wave without realising it. Well done John.
At 5:30pm Bob relinquished command to Roger Matthews who supervised Martin and Ged flying a group of Explorer Scouts from Saltash. Judging by the smiling faces a good time was had by all.
The day ended with the team putting up the removeable fence across the west end of the airfield. The fence is made up of a series of posts which fit in to sockets in ground linked together with long galvanised steel fence panels. This normally straight forward task went well untill the last panel which appeared to be 10cm too short. Some members thought that the airfield had grown ??, some thought that the (steel) fence panels had shrunk ?? . After some judicious swapping around of fence panels to take advantage of the manufacturing tollerences, the task was eventually completed. Glider pilots at their best.
Steve
1 comment:
Steve,
The problem with the fence panels not fitting properly was obviously caused by a recent siesmic shift at Brentor!
Bob Jones
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