Saturday 19th November 2011

I was a little late on parade today ( 10:30 – had to work first ). When I arrived flying had already commenced and the technical crew were in the hangar. To my surprise Martin Smith was actually working on his “new” glider, a venerable old T31, an open cockpit tandem 2 seater dating to the very early 1950’s. I will post some pictures as soon as they have assembled this glider.

Fairly quiet at the launch point today but with enough training and solo flying to keep things ticking over. The best flight turned out to be 22 minutes supported by some small low thermals. Valiant efforts were made to find any wave being produced by the light SE wind but these flights drew a blank.

Chris Kaminski spent the evening cursing at the simulator computer in Polglish ( as mix of his native Polish and adopted English languages ) as he wrestled with installing a PDA computer. He was ultimately successful and the simulator will now operate with the PDA mounted in the front cockpit which will enable pilots to have navigation and flight computer data while flying simulated cross countries. This is an excellent upgrade and will help with advanced training.

Steve

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