Wednesday 30th March 2011

Today day started by looking like a washout, but with the wood burner doing its stuff, a handful of Wednesday regulars stuck around and we all pitched in to help Don introduce nine junior cadets from Kelly College CCF to the joys of gliding.

While classroom and simulator sessions were happening in the clubhouse, John Bolt and Dave Bourchier set about fettling the tail skids of some of our club gliders. Meanwhile Mike Keller, Phil Hardwick, Robin Wilson, Dave Rippon, Andrew Beaumont, Bob Sansom and Steve Lewis devoted most of their day to helping the young visitors to get airborne.(If I've missed out anyone's name, I apologise.)I'm well aware that not all of you managed to fly yourselves, but I hope that you gained some satisfaction from seeing how much fun the cadets had.

Weather-wise, the met-man (person)? was true to his (or her) word and the rain and fog lifted during early afternoon, and all of the cadets who wanted to fly flew - some a couple of times. Some even managed to experience soaring under some cloud streets which appeared briefly.

Bob Pirie