Today’s forecast of light winds, sunny periods giving way to increasing cloud cover and eventually showers proved to be very accurate. This was always going to be a training day.
We had lots of visitors today. Air experience visitors were Scott Chenery, Mark Woodley, Barry Smith, Kevin Pike, Tim Baker, Peter Buckland and Elliot Burns. We also welcomed Mike Wilmot, a solo pilot from North Hill. After a series of training and check flights Mike flew solo in the K7M G-DDAK. We also flew Heather's grandson Ethan who was a little apprehensive but still enjoyed his flight.
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| Scott Chenery |
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| Kevin Pike |
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| Barry Smith |
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| Mark Woodley |
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| Ethan Humphrey |
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| Tim Baker |
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| Peter Buckland |
Unfortunately, by 4pm the weather had deteriorated. With the showers becoming more frequent and, with the cloudbase lowering rapid, flying was brought to a premature finish.
Elsewhere on the site today, the committee assembled for a meeting. The minutes will be made available for members soon. In the workshop, John, assisted by various club members, made great progress on preparing the “new” K8. This will be ready soon.
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| The loneliness of the long distance engineer. Alan at work |
In the hangar, Alan Holland worked away on his own on the new engine for the Gus Launch winch. This requires quite a bit of re-engineering to make it fit the winch, but work in progressing.
Steve
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