The weather was definitely going to be flyable with periods of sunshine and a NW breeze. RASP suggested reasonable soaring until late afternoon. For a large part of the day there was some high cirrus cloud which reduced the thermal activity somewhat.
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| Stefi was eager make use of the promising conditions |
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From the top of the launch the shy looks a bit challenging.
The nice looking clouds are several miles to the north |
With this sort of forecast it was not surprising that there were plenty of club members about, some to go soaring, some the taken check flights and some to continue to learn to fly. There were no visitors booked in today so the second K13 was used to further our instructor training and for club pilots to practice their mutual flying priveleges.
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| Mike photographed by Steve |
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| Steve photographed by ( you guessed it ) Mike |
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| On final approach to the east end into the mostly westerly wind. |
To celebrate the completion of it's ARC, the Twin Astir flown by Ged with Andrew Beaumont in the front seat, completed the longest flight of the day with 1 hour 20 minutes under the 3800 feet cloudbase. They reported generally good conditions high up but with sea air cutting of the soaring beyond Roadford Reservoir.
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| Andrew and Ged had today's longest flight in the Twin Astir |
While all this fun was being had, Barry and Roger Green spent their day replacing one of the clubhouse windows with a nice new PVC one. This simple sounding task took up most of their day as the opening needed to be adjusted to the window size ( bought as a miss measured second from the supplier). The results are well worth the effort.
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Father and son window fitting hero Barry and Roger Green
leaning on their handywork |
The day finished with a meeting of the Committee which stretched well into the evening.
A good training day
Steve
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