Today the sky was overcast and to start with too low to fly. So the day started with some fettling of private gliders. Andy Davey test fitted a new wing dolly for his Libelle. I refitted the instrument panel to the Kestrel and switched on the new Flarm to see if the glider was picked up on Glide and Seek. Successful I removed the panel for some more fettling at home. Phil Hardwick also did some general fettling on the DG300 trailer. With no trainees on site today and a low turn out the assembled pilots started getting the field ready to at least put in a couple of circuits before Rick arrived to carry out Richard Roberts BI annual checks.
Richard and I did a quick weather check flight to make sure cloudbase was now high enough (a cheeky little practice for Richard before Rick's arrival). A launch to 1400ft and 8 minutes later we were back on the ground.
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| Richard flying the launch. |
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| Grey overcast sky. |
Malcolm WJ, John Allan and Gavin each took turns in the SF27 for extended circuits. Mike Jardine and I each had a solo flight in the K13 with me reaching the dizzying heights of a 10 minute flight.
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| SF27 returns. |
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| John Allan getting ready |
Rick had now arrived and had three flights with Richard including the obligatory launch failure saw Richard cleared for another year of BI flying.
Mike now took over the back seat of the K13 to fly with John Allan. John is starting to prepare for his Bronze C flying test in the near future.
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| John and Mike. |
A small crew but quite a bit was achieved today. A big thankyou to Andy Davey who manned the winch for all flights without flying and Phil Hardwick for helping at the launchpoint and retrieving also without flying.
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