Watching the weather forecast this week has been a tense affair; all week a possible gap in the seemingly endless frontal systems promised a possible flying opportunity on Saturday. Normally the timing of such gaps tends to move but not this week so Saturday dawned with mostly 8/8ths cloud cover but at least high enough to fly. The wind was 12-15 knots westerly at runway level, stronger at altitude of course but flyable.
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| An uninspiring sky but flyable. |
A K13 was got ready early to take advantage of the conditions. The K8s were left in the hangar, it was possibly a bit windy for them and as there was only a small (but beautifully formed) team the K13 would have enough capacity for our needs.
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| One Dat Course candidate Ben Followell |
First up was Scratch who completed 2 good circuits with Instructor Rick Wiles to maintain his recency. We then welcomed visitor Ben Followell who was attending for a One Day Course. Ben was a solo glider pilot some 7 years ago when he was part of the Cadet Scheme at another airfield. After a couple of familiarisation flights with me he spent the rest of his course with Rick. By the end of the day he had flown his first ever winch launch and reacquainted himself with the pleasures of landing the aircraft. Well done Ben.
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| The K13 climbs into the sky once more |
Everyone who wanted to fly did. By about 3pm the formation of moisture on the aircraft warned of canopy misting problems to come so the glider was retrned to the hangar and put away after a thorough wash.
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Rick's view from the front seat of the K13
looking towards Cornwall from cludbase.
Brentor Church is lower right |
Not an epic day but it was good to fly once more.
Steve
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