Another day driving to the club with low cloud which was forecast to hang about most of the day with a possible short window that might be flyable early afternoon. The few attendees gathered in the clubhouse drinking teas and coffees, with one eye looking out to see if there was any improvement in the weather.
Mark Courtney made an unexpected visit with regulation Costa coffee in hand. After discussing the planned visit with the North Hill Eurofox for aerotows next Friday, he spent some time briefing Ed Borlase ready for his Bronze C Cross Country Endorsement flights on Tuesday.
Late morning there was enough interest to set the field up in anticipation that the cloudbase would rise enough to fly. Initially just a K13 would be taken to the west end launch point. Junior Jamie Young was volunteered to fly with me and see how high the cloudbase was. I briefed Jamie to fly the flight and make decisions with whatever was presented to him.
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| Jamie ready to cope with anything. |
With cloudbase at about 650ft, Jamie abandoned the launch and flew a good eventuality to get us back safely on the ground. A second launch with a well engineered winch power failure followed by a low circuit and Jamie landing across the field onto the short stub runway sees Jamie well on his way to his first solo.
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| The K13 safely on the stub runway. |
Although the cloudbase was slowly rising, launch failures were the feature of the day. Both David Moorley and Viktor Skochko had their first experiences of flying go around launch failures.
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| Viktor getting ready. |
The K8 was brought to the launch point as the cloudbase was now high enough for a full launch. Ed Borlase and Steve Fletcher took turns with Steve achievling flight of the day with 8 minutes.
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