A grey day with low cloud greeted the Wednesday flyers. I arrived at the club
to find Heather rubbing down the paint work on the window to the right of the
club hut door. I managed to find some wood filler in the hangar and set about
filling some rather large holes in the frame. Heather did a great job painting
the window whilst I optimistically decided to go and rig my glider because I
thought I saw some blue appear over the airfield.
With the field set up with
the Gus launch at the far western end of the field we took the K13 and club K8
down to the launch point. Rick arrived full of optimism and enthusiasm and as
Rick and I arrived at the Launchpoint the cloud base dropped and the Dartmoor
drizzle descended. The Wednesday crew found that the clubs newly renovated K8
came in handy straight away….. as a shelter!
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| Surveying the cloudbase from the shelter of the K8 wing |
The cloudbase remained reasonably low with no possibility of soaring so the day was used to practice launch failures and
with a slight southerly wind this meant we quite often ended up retrieving the
launch cables from over the fence. Heather drove the retrieve all day and did a
sterling effort clambering over the fence and retrieving the cable. Where would
we be without her? A huge thank you to Heather.
Barry drove the winch for most of the day until I briefly took over to give
him a rest towards the end. Thanks Barry.
Everyone that wanted to fly did, albeit briefly to practice their eventuality
flying.
Steve Fletcher
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