Sunday 11th November 2012

Winds 340/10 with little cloud to start.  A very good training day. Remembrance day and the first day of the club one day course experiment.

Thanks to the Saturday evening efforts of Steve Lewis, Chris Matten and David Bourchier, the K7M only needed the tailplane refitting after a tail skid replacement. Many thanks to everyone involved.

Thanks also to Nigel Williamson who not only brought the Hobnobs but agreed to drive the winch so our course could go ahead. Barry Green and Heather, and several others pitched in to make the day a success. Now that’s what I call teamwork.

At  8.15 am a  grinning Leith Whittington arrived in time for coffee with a tray of eggs!  So a team coffee before unpacking the hangar.

At 8.30 the hangar unpacking started at the field set up began. Roger Appleboom ( course member 1) completed his bronze GFT, and practised  some new flying skills with a total of 9 training flights.

Roger and Don

Keith Whittington (course member 2) de-rusted after a 2 month lay off and moved significantly closer to solo, with a total of  10 training lights on the day.

Don and Leith

A short delay allowed us to devour the scrambled egg and ham sandwiches, thanks Roger.

In addition the club K8 was flown by several club members, Alan Holland (as usual) demonstrating it was a little soarable---if you worked at it.

The two seater managed to squeeze in a couple more general  training flights before the standard landing at sunset.

The Bocian launches at sunset.

A good fun day for everyone.

Don