Once again the day started grey, gloomy with low cloud and everyone arriving at the airfield was expecting the field to be too wet to fly. Then the Duty Instructor, Mike Optimist Jardine arrived and having inspected the airfield and consulted the met forecast and stood watching the Tors slowly appear said the magic words ’Lets give it a go’.
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| John and David in the hangar wondering if they heard correctly. |
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| K13 on it's way to the launch point. |
The club secretary arrived with the first set of cables felt it appropriate to Salute ’those who are about to fly’. …. sorry about twisting the Roman Emperors words.
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| The cables arriving. |
The cloud base continued to rise and the first flight took off at 11.06.
Mike Bennet and Mike Jardine took the first cable and Mr B expertly found the gaps between the clouds.
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| Mike up in the clouds. |
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| Above the clouds. |
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| This is where they should have landed. |
Everyone flew and we had a great time. Around 1400 the cloud started to come down, but there were large gaps, but you had to time the launch well.
It was all going well…..
…..but on the very last landing of the day CCY decided to deflate its main wheel …..
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| Never the best of places to change a wheel! |
13 members flew, Colin and Gavin worked all day in the workshop. It was good to see Guy Balmer and David Morley back in the air after a long break. The conditions didn’t allow soaring but the Flight of the day of 9 minutes went to Malcolm Wilton-Jones who found a little lift with two Buzzards joining him at the end of the day.
At last we got some flying in, yippeee!
Steve Fletcher
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