The weather today was very similar to yesterday, in other words it was HOT, with high pressure, a strong inversion, and very little chance of significant thermal development.
The club was open early with duty instructor DCFI Mark Courtney, North Hill visitors James and David, Regional Examiner Simon Minson, Chris Kaminski, Sean Parramore and myself all on the airfield before 8.30.
Club flying was fairly busy with the K13, K8, and Zugvogel and Chris Kaminski’s Pirat making what seemed like endless soaring attempts.
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| The K8 waiting for one more launch in the evening light. |
The other K13 G-DBVB was kept busy with Sean and myself flying with Examiner Simon to complete our Basic Instructor course which involved a series of practice launch failures and various circuit exercises. Between us we probably landed on every bit of the airfield. The good news is that we both passed and are now looking forward to joining the growing club instructor team after we have completed our acceptance flights with CFI Don and the last of the paperwork.
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| Sean, Regional Examiner Simon Minson and myself share an end of course joke. |
Our thanks today must go to the club members for their good humour while dealing with the disruptions caused by our BI course antics and the winch drivers for dealing with the multiple practice launch failures. If I had to single someone out it would have to be Marta who seemed to be everywhere pulling, pushing, launching, encouraging, organising, clearing drains ?? and generally keeping everyone in order. Many thanks one and all.
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| Too much detail Marta !!! - Thanks for all your efforts. |
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| Club Fleet Manager Chris couldn't resist an artistic moment at the end of the day with the balloon passing ,the sheep making their way onto the airfield and the sunset starting to colour the sky. Perhaps we should change his name to Ansel Adams(ski) |
Steve
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