The high pressure continues giving us very pleasant flying conditions. The wind today was NNE 5 knots and with the long periods of sunshine it was warm for the whole day.
The day started and finished with a bit of exercise as the hurdle fence was removed ( and later replaced ) from the west end approach. The fence is necessary at the moment as there are cattle in the West End undershoot field.
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| Looking down on the launchpoint. Chris Jones soaring with Ged in the K13 |
With our usual Wednesday instructor Bob Pirie away on holiday, instructor duties were fielded by Ged Nevisky. Ged was kept busy all day with a mix of check flights, and lessons for our trainees. Several of our trainee pilots were lucky enough to get soaring flights. After successful trial flights, verteran pilot Jeff Craggs re-soloed in the K8.
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| Jeff waiting to launch in the K8 |
There were a lot of private aircraft out today. These included the Jantar1, Asw20, Astir, K6 and K8. Most of the privateers managed at least 1 soaring flight, some more. Best flight of the day was Trevor Taylor in the Jantar1 who returned to the airfield 2 hours and 34 minutes later after very nearly landing out at Folly Gate.
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| Trevor Taylor in the Jantar 1 |
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| Bob Sansom wait to launch in his K8 |
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| At DGS Raine goes up. In this case Steve Raine in his Astir |
Our thanks go to the usual suspects. It was nice to see John Rogers putting himself forward to train on the winch and Jorg Beasley to train in the control tower.
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| Chis Jones spent most of his day log keeping in the tower |
A nice day out with friends
Steve
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