Today would be a tyreing day (more later). With low cloud over the airfield, it was decided to delay setting the airfield up until later in the morning. The cloudbase was forecast to rise late morning allowing aviation to commence early afternoon.
After morning teas and coffees, Colin arrived to continue work on K13 CCY.
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| CCY receiving some TLC as part of its ARC. |
With the cloud starting to lift it was decided to DI the aircraft ready to fly. K13 HXP was first out of the hangar. It was notice that the rear tyre was flat, so a spare was liberated from the spares cupboard and fitted. As we removed K13 DMX from its trolly, it was found that the main wheel was also flat. It was pumped up, but during the DI it was noted that the pressure was slowly dropping. A slightly lengthier wheel replacement was undertaken. A later inspection of the replaced wheel by Dave Bouchier found no reason for the deflation. It has been inflated to the correct pressure and replaced in the spares cupboard.
Finally at 13:05 we started flying. Hugh Gascoyne and I took a weather check flight to confirm the cloudbase. A full launch to 1100ft, confirmed that flying could progress. First to fly with me was Mohammed Khowibich, who after his three flights was using the elevator, ailerons and starting to coordinate the controls,
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| Mohammed happy to be in a glider. |
Both Simon Vallance and John Smith flew with me making good progress with their individual aims. Our first visitor today was Paul Jefferies. Paul flew with Hugh Gascoyne.
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| Paul presented with his certificate by Hugh. |
The next visitor to fly with Hugh was Ann Barnfield.
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| Ann ready to go. |
Alongside the two-seat flying, the solo pilots maintained currency in the K8. Steve Fletcher, Mike Bennett, Scratch, and Gavin Short all took turns for a quick circuit. After a quick check flight with me, John Allan added another three flights in the K8 to his ever increasing total. Phil Hardwick, Malcolm Wilton-Jones and Robin Wilson took off in various combinations in the Twin Astir.
During the afternoon, my daughter made a surprise visit to the airfield to wish me a happy birthday.
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| Paula on her surprise visit. |
Late afternoon Mike Jardine arrived to fly with the evening visitor. 18 year old Jack Wilcock enjoyed his three short flights including a hangar flight. Last flight of the day was Hugh in the K8 and with a meer 10 minutes achieved flight of the day.
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| Jack and Mike ready to fly. |
Peter Howarth
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