Dartmoor Gliding News–Saturday 12th July 2014

The weather forecast for today looked like a complete disaster and unfortunately it was correct. There was low cloud all day with increasing amounts of drizzle and some rain.

The forecast kept a lot of members at home but the several stalwarts were at the airfield ready to tackle any and every task.

The cloudbase just became lower and lower

 Our thanks especially go to Rick Wiles and David Bourchier who spent most of their day tidying up the hangar and collecting together all the scrap metal etc., reorganising the various cupboards and generally clearing up. Later Rick fixed the drivers door release mechanism on the green Discovery which has been driving all it’s users insane by sticking. It now works beautifully.

Today also saw the club blessed with 3 instructors on site. David Jesty, Ged Nevisky and myself. After I had introduced some visitors to the club and simulator we decided to tackle the poor performance of the variometer systems on the K13 G-DDMX. Eventually this was diagnosed as a leak from one of the mechanical variometers which was subsequently replaced. We expect the system to be restored to it’s best but only a test flight will confirm this.

Ged and David checking the Total Energy system for leaks

Steve