A promising start weather-wise saw two members arrive before 8am and a gaggle by 8.30. Gliders and winches were soon inspected whilst Don went off in the motor glider to do field landing exercises with Colin Boyde.
The first pair of cables on the Guslaunch saw the K6 and K13 thermalling, which seemed to bode well for the rest of the day.
We then swapped over to the newly repaired ML winch to put it through its paces. First off was Andrew Beaumont in the Zugvogel; also off were Alan Ballard(P1) & Phil Hardwick(P2) in the winch as Newton's Third Law of motion came into play and seven tons of winch made its stately progress down the field owing to the P1's senior moment in forgetting to move the wheel chocks across from the Guslaunch.
Sadly the cloud over-developed and stayed that way until late afternoon but that didn't stop a full day of training and no less than 6 trial flights; a total of 46 launches before packing up, followed by a few beers and a chat at the clubhouse to round off a very enjoyable day.
Alan Ballard
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