Spring seems to have broken. 2 days running the club would be flying. A forecast for light easterly breeze, clear blue skies and the only thing missing today was a guarantee of thermals to go soaring. The usual Sunday Soarers were joined today by a couple of the Saturday regulars.
 |
| Clear view towards the moors. |
Training flights started with David Osment and then Viktor Skochko. Both are progressing well with their general flying and decision making.
 |
| David turning down wind into circuit. |
Training took a break for our visitor today, Willim Dawe. Two flights with Phil Hardwick saw him leave happy after his experience.
 |
| William and Phil all settled ready to go. |
After our three visitors yesterday from RNAS Culdrose (Seahawk GC) we were joined by another today. Tony Hogg enjoyed two flights with me getting to grips with the winch launch and the differences from their usual auto-tow launches.
 |
| Tony preparing for his winch launch. |
Training re-started with Freddie Purkiss and Julia Old. Both experienced excess sink and having to modify the circuit due to being low. A good lesson for both.
After a day at North Hill yesterday, Zack Smith settled ino the front seat telling me he was good at finding lift and would take me soaring like he had been watching Ed Borlase soaring his K6. A quick five minute circuit proved soaring was not guaranteed, even if others were soaring. However on his second flight, we were more successful with a 19 minute flight.
 |
| Only contrails seen in the sky today. |
The final flight was John Smith. After working on Zack's Shack he had a quick circuit to keep currency.
Thank you to Sean Westrope who winched for a large part of the day having been cleared on the manual winch. Only 16 flights, but Ed claimed flight of the day with 1hour 22minutes in his first flight of the year in his K6.
No comments:
Post a Comment