Today’s forecast showed a little promise but looking out of the bedroom window gave me some doubts. There was thick fog.
Arriving at the airfield things did not look much better. The fog was still very thick but, keeping the faith, we got the gliders out, the airfield ready and then we waited. Gradually the fog lifted and the flat grey cloud started to show some variety of colour.
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| One Day Course candidate Andrew Wilks pictured with his wife Svetlana |
Eventually our patience was rewarded with signs of some blue sky and we got on with flying the full 2 seater programme. Andrew Wilks, our One day Course candidate, managed to fly the first half of his course. He made a good job of starting to fly the aircraft, helped, no doubt, by the introduction he received on the simulator while we were waiting for the weather to improve. The soaring flights he enjoyed encouraged the solo pilots to get going and one Astir privateer made an appearance along with the club K8 and Pirat.
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| The Langman girls ckeck out the K13 before mum's flight |
We also welcomed visitor Annie Langman who enjoyed a trial lesson in the K13 with Ged. All the club members who wanted to fly did so but the instructors flying the 2 seaters lead the way with the soaring.
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| Annie Langman shares a joke with instructor Ged before her air experience flight |
By mid afternoon the weather deteriorated once again forcing a stop to flying for the day.
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| The K8 waiting for it's next pilot |
As the flying programme had finished a little early with used the spare time and labour to assemble the “new” K7M G-DCLT which is moving ever closer to being ready to fly. Many thanks to all those who helped.
We made the best out of the day.
Steve
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