Early morning the weather looked hopeless. Cloudbase was just 500ft. Winds were light and variable NE. there was a lot of activity with gliders getting clean and inspected. Someone obviously knew something I didn't. It turned out that there was a forecast clearance of the cloud.
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| Two seaters at the launchpoint |
The plan was to initially use the low conditions to provide launch failure practice for anyone that wanted or needed that. Personally I gave myself a practice launch failure in the K8. Could be a first? Today we were using both winches. The "new" manual Supercat is working well, Hopefully the dirty fuel issues are now a thing of the past.
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| The Puchacz launches again |
We had a couple of Naval visitors, Jamie Steel who flies with us from time to time and Jonny Mion who is the Secretary of the Royal Navy Gliding and Soaring Asscoiation and an Ass Cat Instructor.
Our most patient potential member must be Viktor Skochko. He has been with us for several weeks through the poor weather. Unfortunately the cloudbase did not improve in time to start his One Day Course today but we did manage to get him flown in the Puchacz as a taster of things to come.
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| Viktor flew in the Puchacz with Scratch |
Even though the cloudbase did eventually improve to allow full height launches there was no lift to be had and circuits were as good as it got.
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| K8 launches |
So by the close of play we had completed 28 launches, completed lots of practice cable breaks and allowed pilots to maintain some currency.
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