A busy day today, with many trial flight bookings on the calendar and plenty
of club members looking for check flights etc.
Initially hampered by K-13 HXP
being the only two seater available, at lunchtime there was a very welcome
message that, provided we sent reinforcements, DMX was repaired and ready for
collection.
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| Our One Day Course student was Jane Green, who flew with IFP Rick Wiles. |
That message fortunately arrived just as the day became thermic and
we were able to spare people from the launchpoint to go down to the hangar. This
doubled the launch rate and enabled club members and their guests to fly in HXP,
whilst DMX was used for club training. IFP Rick Wiles flew with One Day Course
student Jane Green, visitor Jim Welch and member Simon Collier’s wife Lynn,
whilst Martin Cropper flew with a fellow glider pilot from Rode Island USA Peter
Flanagan. Ged Nevisky gave Mike Bennett some useful coaching ahead of next
week’s Flying Week, whilst Colin Boyd flew with partner Karen Mather.
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| Visitor Jim Welch also flew with Rick. |
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Overseas visitor and fellow glider pilot Peter Flanagan,
from Rhode Island Soaring, New York State, USA,
flew with Martin Cropper (and Steve Lewis). |
The onset
of a convergence from the SW gradually put paid to soaring, but not before Steve
Lewis had taken the K-8 to 3,600ft for a Flight of the Day winning 36 mins.
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| Steve Lewis’s view of the Tavistock and the River Tamar from the K-8 at 3,000ft. |
With
34 launches in the bag by 6:30pm it was declared to have been a very satisfying
day.
Thanks go to Colin Boyd, Dave Downton and the crew for getting DMX repaired
and back into the air so quickly.
Martin Cropper
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