Today started with very light NNW breeze and endless blue skies. This was not quite as idyllic as it may sound. It was cold and there was a dampness in the air that ensured that the cold was felt in your bones.
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| K8 on approach |
At this time of year the club is often quiet and today was like that with the hardy few maintaining currency with a mixture of flights in the K8 and K13. Rick Wiles completed some instructor training flights with Ged Nevisky in the K13. Best flight of the day was by Dick Masters flying the K8 who managed a dizzying 8 minutes by wafting around very slowly in the K8. And the secret of his success? His new Cape Leather flying gloves of course.
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| And the model is wearing Cape Leather flying gloves in a this seasons off white colourway. |
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| This is as close to a launch queue that we could manage today |
This was Stefi’s last visit to the club before she goes home to Romania for Christmas and after a couple of flights in the K8 she spent the rest of the day training on the winch. Today’s launches were very good all day so the training must be going quite well.
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| Stefi in the ML winch. |
In the middle of the afternoon a sheet of cloud arrived from the north west and somehow managed to fill the sky in about 20 minutes flat. It brought drizzle with it and this broke our resolve so we returned the aircraft to the hangar and decided to practice our fire making skills with the woodburner in the clubhouse instead.
Steve
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