Today’s forecast was for the heat to continue, but RASP was showing a good chance of soaring for the afternoon. Despite the good forecast there were only two trainees and recently solo pilot John Allen needing to fly the K13. First in the K13 was John Allan for a quick check flight before adding another two solo flights to his logbook.
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| John Allan ready for another solo. |
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| Simon’s view of the airfield. |
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| Assembled aircraft at launch point. |
Also joining the assembled aircraft were the two Standard Cirrus’, Gavin Short CNN and Scratch FCN. Both had flights of 1hour 5minutes and 1hour 21minutes respectively.
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| Scratch’s view of Tavistock. |
Other notable flights were Phil Hardwick (Astir FCJ) 1hour 39minutes, Hugh Gascoyne (K8 FXB) 1hour 46minutes and Malcolm Wilton-Jones (Twin Astir DSL) 2hour 15minutes. With so many aircraft soaring John Allan stepped back into the K13 and had his first solo soaring flight of a very creditable 1hour 9minutes.
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| John launching for his soaring flight. |
After Scratch had landed in the Cirrus he offered me a chance to fly it. Having not flown a Standard Cirrus for 30 years, I jumped at the chance to relive some good memories.
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| Peter Howarth in Std Cirrus FCN. |
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| At 4000ft heading west. |
I arrived back at the airfield 1hour 11minutes later for FCN syndicate partner Rick Wiles to witness my landing. Rick had arrived to carry on working with Phil Hardwick and Gavin Short towards their IFP qualifications.
A good day flying with several flights over one hour giving an overall average of 30minutes per flight. Thank you to everybody for their help around the airfield and an enjoyable day.
Peter Howarth
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