Sunday 8th January 2012

What had been forecast a medium-height cloud "circuit-bashing" day, turned out to be a clagged-in typical Dartmoor day. Ever the optimists, the enthusiastic band who turned out set-to getting BVB and the winch ready for a change in the weather. Sadly the only change was for the worse.

But Dartmoor weather makes folks resourceful so various people got busy with various tasks from the never-ending list of things that keep a gliding club thriving.

Don was closeted with Martin Cropper engaged in arcane financial shenanigans. Martin C also teamed up, later, with Mike Ashton to give a death defying display of precision chisel work removing layers of 2-pack from the Pirat wing centre-section (I could have watched for hours!) whilst myself and Ged fitted the transponder unit of the Skylaunch Launch Assistant system to K13 BVB in the hope that we could put it through its paces.

Meanwhile, back at the clubhouse Don delivered briefings on various topics whilst tea was drunk in the warmth of the woodburner.(how come he gets all the cushy jobs?) There was also much lively what-iffery regarding the Launch Assistant, in various likely and less-likely scenarios, but more of that another day.

Alan Ballard

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