A beautiful warm summer day with temperatures in mid 20’s, blue sky and a warm breeze from the east. Definitely a shorts and tee shirt day.
There was lots of early activity, with club gliders and the airfield being made ready. There was also furious rigging activity amongst the private gliders with the Jantar 1, Open Cirrus, ASW20, 2*Astirs, and an SF27 all out and ready.
This activity was augmented by forecasts from Trevor on the club forum over the last few days that this was going to be the “day of days”, 500km flights, 5 hour flights, height claims etc..
How could he have been so wrong? The air was very stable with little or no soaring for most of the day. So, Trevor has earned himself a copy of the “Ladybird Book of Weather Forecasting” and a place on the Wooden Spoon Trophy list for this year ( a trophy he has already won several times ).
The day was not wasted though. Flying training continued apace. Winch driver training was on the go all day with Roger and Martin being signed off as winch drivers and Sean promoted to the lofty heights of Winch Instructor.
We welcomed back Bob Pirie, our Wednesday instructor, who has been on holiday in Portugal for a few weeks, with comments about the weather having been as nice as this all the time he has been away. I don’t think he believed us .
Steve
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Our thanks should go to Steve Lewis for him giving up most of the day winch training. Thank you Steve!
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