DGS News - Saturday 30th June 2013

Winds 10 knots NW, high pressure, lots of cloud cover and a poor soaring forecast all pointed towards a training day.

Visitor Rob Larter ready for his air experience flight 

The assembled members split into 2 groups. The fliers and the fixers. The fliers, with instructors Don and Steve took K13 G-DDMX to the launch point and filled the day with a mix of training, Air Experience and club flying. There was a little thermal activity but only enough to sustain 800 feet or so. More like “falling with style” than proper soaring really. The afternoon finished a little earlier than expected when the cloudbase lowered quickly to 800 feet.

Visitor Simon Greenaway ( 2nd from the right) pictured here with family and friends enjoyed  a short soaring flight as his introduction to gliding

Meanwhile in the hangar it was all go, with much work going on to get the “new to us” K7M GDDAK ready to join the fleet and to finish off the Pirat. The plan is now to C of A the Pirat on Wednesday with the K7 following shortly afterwards. Great news.

Steve