Dartmoor Gliding News-Friday 20th June 2014

DGS News on a Friday? I hear you ask. Well yes. We had an evening visit from a Scout group from Torpoint.

Leaving Plymouth in bright sunshine I was looking forward to an evening of flying in sunny, perhaps thermic, conditions but approaching the airfield it was obviously going to be a little different. There was a large area of dark grey cloud covering the whole of Dartmoor. However, there was almost no wind in the very quiet conditions.

We flew from the west end and were able to take advantage of the fact that we were only operating one 2 seater in the still conditions to land “downwind” i.e. over the winch stopping alongside the the launchpoint after taking advantage of the little amount of rising air over the eastern slopes.

Matt and Ged were the first to fly

Next to fly with Ged was scout leader Roy

Each of our visitors, 4 scouts and their leader completed 2 flights and the briefings and lectures necessary for their gliding badges. Well done everyone.

Robert and Steve took over from Ged

Darren was next and recorded to two longest flights

The last to fly was James who did one flight with each instructor

It is sometimes easy just to thank the instructors but really Ged and I had the easy and most enjoyable bit; we went flying in beautifully gentle conditions. The thanks really must go to those who turned up to help us fly, Mike Gadd on the winch, Chris Jones on the log, Dave Bouchier and Rick Wiles on organising the launchpoint

At the end of flying we were treated to scouting style team work
as the group made short work of replacing the hurdle fence 

Steve