Ged woke up early and looked out of the hole in the wall, he had permission for a day's gliding but expecting bad weather and was going to cut the grass. Seeing nothing but blue sky he rushed off to Brentor, pointing his Cirrus towards a promising line of fluffy cumulus, promptly disappeared from our view for a respectable flight.
Earlier in the morning, due to Don's patient tutelage, (one end of him sounded quite relieved after our 3rd practice cable break) I gained my Bronze C and was rewarded with this opportunity to sing my own praises through writing the blog. Hah ! It took me long enough, having begun gliding in September 1979, well before some of our members were born. OK so I did have a few years doing other stuff, enough about how wonderful
I am. Can anyone beat 32 years from first flight to Bronze C ? please !!
A fairly quiet day otherwise, beautiful warm t-shirt weather which stared with a light SE wind and blue thermals, fairly soon after we set up the wind got too much West in it and we changed ends.
During the afternoon someone lit a very large bonfire in Mary Tavy but there were no takers as the action was on the other side of the airfield. The clouds drifted in, tempting everyone until it overdeveloped and got a little colder. There were only a few of us, one K13, K6, K6e, K8 and Open Cirrus, extended circuits mainly but a lot of members missed a good day out.
Alan Carter
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