Another Sunday, another no fly day. With cloudbase at 600ft amsl (see photo)
and the airfield 220 feet higher, there really was no question about it – and
the wind was forecast to increase to 45 kts later in the day.
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| The moors just south of the airfield; cloudbase at 600ft amsl says it all... |
And so it was that Don and Peter Howarth settled into another day's
Instructor Training, using Ed Borlase as a guinea pig – it's astonishing how a
subject as simple as trimming can encompass human factors, the manoeuvring
envelope, spanwise flow, stalling, vortices, Va and Vb, (who said Vc and Vd –
one desirable, the other not..?!) and the Coriolis effect..!
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CFI Don Puttock in full ‘Bloggs on - Bloggs off’ mode while
Ed Borlase provides added student audience value. |
Still it wasn't all theory, as Colin Boyd and Roger Appleboom restored the
K-8 to serviceability whilst Barry and Roger Green (aka the Green Army) returned
their ASW-20 to the site, ready for the (whisper it) s-e-a-s-o-n. (A day's
flying would be good to get some practice in..!) They were accompanied by
Heather Horsewill – and it was good to see her wrist is on the mend, encased in
a support bandage.
Outside, the contractor continued work on the fencing - you don't need a
cloudbase above ground level for that! Here's hoping for a 'weather window' on
Wednesday...
Martin Cropper
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