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| A grey calm day |
We welcomed One Day Course candidate Robert Williams. Robert was keen to try out gliding as a sport and by then end of the day he was making good progress handling the controls and left the airfield with a smile vowing to return to continue his training.
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| Robert Williams ready to start his One Day Course. |
Sometimes, apparently easy days, present their own challenges. Early on HXP was grounded after it was discovered that some TLC was required to the port airbrake. So CCY was going to need to be shared between the club training and Air experience lists. This should be possible given the number of flights required but of course life is never that easy and after the first few flights CCY developed a puncture. The wheel from HXP was temporarily fitted to CCY while CCY's wheel was returned to the hanger where David Bouchier repaired the puncture in double quick time. Just as well really because a couple of flights later CCY the suffered a wheel bearing problem and it's now repaired wheel was refitted. Thanks to all those involved.
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| Changing the wheel on CCY |
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| But we needn't have worried with our very own mechanical dream team of Rick and.... |
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| ....Scratch on the job |
From time to time, throughout the day, pilots noticed that some reduced sink and even a little bit of lift could be found between the winch and church at the end of the valley. Malcolm made the best of this with a dizzying 11 minutes in the SF27.
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| Today's compact and bijou grid |
After flying, when the equipment and aircraft were once again safely tucked away in their respective hangars, the committee got down to the business of club governance. Items up for discussion included the upgrading/replacing of the club twin seater fleet and electronic conspicuity for the club fleet amongst the more mundane but no less important routine items.
Steve
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