Wednesday 12th September 2012

I arrived at the airfield to be greeted by a few of our hardy members plus Jeremy and his wife who had travelled from Yeovil for a one day course, Tony an ex airline pilot who had an air ex flight on Sat. and obviously enjoyed it because he was back for some more and Tim who was on holiday in the south west for a few days. Tim just dropped in on spec. he flew gliders many years ago and now fly's PPL from Anglesey where he lives.

It was 8/8ths cloud cover down to about 500ft, the forecast was to clear later so it was get the kit out change ends and hope for the best. While we were waiting Jeremy had some practise on the simulator. Eventually we started to get some breaks in the cloud so it was off to the launch point to get ready.

The cloud still looked quite low but I decided to try a launch with Tony anyway, expecting to release about 800ft I was most surprised when we dodged the worst of the cloud and ended up at 1300ft, I managed a further 2 flights with Jeremy one to 1400ft and one to 1100ft before we were grounded by a heavy shower and low cloud, we retired to the launch hut to wait for the weather to clear where the main topic was all things aviation from how when landing a 747 the pilot is about 80ft in the air to landing on Anglesey in a cessna with fast jets in the circuit.

After about an hour we decided to try another launch but this time only reached about 900ft, we hung on for a while longer but with more rain and low cloud approaching it was decided to call it a day.

Thanks to all the members for their help you know who you are and to Dave Bouchier and John Bolt who spent the day putting new bearings in the wheel of DMX and trying to fix the starting problem of the Grey Landrover.

Ged

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