Dartmoor Gliding Society Club News: Dartmoor Gliding News

After a week of wind and rain, Saturday dawned clear and bright with a SW breeze. We are between frontal systems with the next due tomorrow, but today we can fly.

At the early morning briefing we were very pleased to announce that we have purchased a second Twin Astir to complete our new look training fleet., The "new" aircraft is already well know at DGS, Twin Astir G-DDSL has in fact been operated for many years from our airfield by a private syndicate. We are very excited and expect to see DSL at the launch point soon after the instructors have had some time for aircraft familiarisation. Here are a few library photos to wet our appetites

Sitting in the sun.

At the launch point

On approach

The airfield was very busy as club members strived to use today's weather window. The launchpoint was a very active place today as we worked through everyone's flying needs, a heady mix of dual and solo flying. There was a little soaring to be had if you launched at the right time with Andy Davey recording 16 and 26 minute flights in his Libelle. Alasdair Barclay posted a very creditable 23 min in the Astir. Best 2 seater flight was 17min flown by myself with today's One Day Course candidate.

Early on the sky was uninspiring

A rather tall line of clouds to the south - possible showers?

Looking for any signs of soarable conditions

By early afternoon the sky looked great,
although cloud base was less than 2000ft

We had 3 visitors today. Lance Whitehead was our One Day Course candidate. He enjoyed his day so much that by the end of the day he had joined the club as a full member. Welcome to the club Lance. Our other visitors were Richard Harper and Jules English who enjoyed Air Experience flights,