Sunday 22nd January 2012

A small band of hardy souls were greeted with the sight of the wind sock blowing in the horizontal position again, though not from an easterly direction that sends glider pilots misty-eyed in anticipation of the Wonderful Wave but from the north west.

Still that didn't stop instructor Ged from being kept busy in BVB with a steady stream of pre-solo pilots pitting their wits against the dreaded wind gradient. Amongst them was new member Leith Whittington who had his first flight in a glider since being a Boy Scout 'a few years ago'. Since then he has accumulated many flying hours in the navigators seat of commercial airliners. We wish Leith every success in his new flying career.

Roger Appleboom listening to Ged doing his Tommy Cooper impersonation with new member Leith Whittington stopping the glider from taking off by itself and Shrek lurking furtively in the background

As well as Ged ,many thanks also to a poorly Alan Ballard who gamely came in and drove the winch for us and later on in the afternoon Martin Cropper whose Ass Cat course at Yeovilton was postponed due to a problem with the runway [runway? who needs a runway?!]]. Best of luck next time Martin.

Darren Wills