Firstly I would like to apologise if this blog is not up to the usual
eloquent standards of the usual author. I turned up at the airfield slightly
later than usual to be greeted by a small group of perplexed glider pilots who
asked are we flying today as the airfield is quite wet after yesterday’s rain.
The decision was yes, but we will limit traffic on the field to the retrieve
disco and the quad bikes for glider retrieval. So with a north easterly forecast
we set about changing ends and getting the gliders ready for flying. With both
the K8 and Zug being CofA’d we were restricted to the two K13’s. First flight of
the day was achieved at a respectable 10:27.
Today’s ODC was James Bidlake who had a couple of Introductory flights with
Roger Applebloom and later completed the rest of his flying with me. By the end
of the day he was successfully flying the K13 around with a little prompting
from me. He thoroughly enjoyed his day and expressed his interest in taking up
flying sometime in the future. His commute from Hong Kong where he works will
make it difficult for the time being.
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| James Bidlake |
Another two of our visitors were Evelyn Gartside and Mark Jarman who flew
with me. Evelyn was down on holiday and wanted to fly at our club. She usually
flies at Lasham and enjoyed her two short flights. Mark has recently moved to
Devon and has been flying at Sutton Bank. After a year away from flying he is
hoping to join us and re-solo with us at Dartmoor.
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| Evelyn Gartside |
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| Mark Jerman |
Roger was also kept very busy with our other visitors, Phil Archer,Peter
Phillips, Penny Tillyer and Johnathan Harris. All went away happy and smiles on
their faces. The airfield was quite crowded at times as our visitors all seemed
to turn up with numerous friends and family.
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| Phil Archer |
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| Penny Tillyer |
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| Peter Phillips |
Club flying was limited due to the lack of aircraft. After his recent break
David Westcott was pleased to get back into the air with two full flights and a
quick cable break practice to shake the cobwebs off. Towards the end of the day
our recent soloist Ed Borlase took to the air with me. After a quick couple of
flights to reacquaint him with flying from the west end, he consolidated with
two solo flights and perfect landings. Well done Ed. Jo Nobbs also had a quick
couple of flights with Roger to help keep currency. Robin Wilson flew his K6 to
achieve the longest flight of the day 37 minutes. Leith added to the club
coffers with his usual enthusiasm.
A big thank you must go to “The Voice” Dave Downton, who chose to winch all
day and not to fly. Also Adrian Irwin who helped out on the field without
flying. Thank you both and everybody else who helped achieve a successful days
flying of 32 flights.
Peter Howarth
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