The weather was typical of recent Wednesdays – awful. Strong, blustery southerly wind. Low cloudbase with showers increasing in frequency and duration until it became continuous rain by late afternoon. So no flying then.
Undeterred, there was a sizeable cadre of club members assigning themselves tasks around the club.
A small group went searching the fields both sides of the airfield to recover lost strops. For their pains they were rained on when they were as far away from any shelter as they could go. ( I'm suppressing as wry smile at this point ). Only DGS pilots could turn strop hunting into a competitive sport. Treasurer Steve Raine returned very disappointed that he had failed to find any. A few moments later a victorious Ged arrived back bearing 3 recovered strops and a big smile. The strops were immediately confiscated by David Bourchier who then proceeded to repair and return them to flight standard.
The talk in the clubhouse was of cross country flying and several members, who still need to finish their cross country endorsements were planning the best way to do their field landing and navigation tests.
The simulator was kept busy. I gave a controls lesson to visitor Steve Wilden who was originally booked for a trial lesson today. After this I helped Mike Gadd to complete a simulated cross country from Brentor to North Hill, a trip he is intending to make for real early next season.
A nice day - despite the weather.
Steve
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