The general forecast probably caused the slow arrival of members today. But with the weather better than the forecasts, when we had enough members we set about getting things ready. The K8 was still off line, so with the small turn out just the K13 was DI's and taken to the launch point.
First flight was a solo flight by me to see what the conditions were like and shake the cobwebs off after two weeks without a flight.
First to fly with me was new member Lance Whitehead. After his recent one day course with us, today he had two flights getting to grips with turning the glider and controlling the airspeed of the glider. Next to fly with me was Michael Malric-Smith. With other flying experience, Michael is quickly progressing through the syllabus. On his first flight he expirienced his first launch failure which I managed to turn into a demonstration of how to handle such an event.
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| Michael ready to fly. |
Duty BI Richard Roberts only had one visitor today. Charlie Bannister was initially a bit nervous, but some gentle talking saw him get into the glider and thououghly enjoyed his flights with Richard watched on by grandmother Julie.
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| Charlie ready to fly. |
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| Receiving his certificate. |
Trainee Misha Skochko was paired up with instructor Jamie Steel for three flights including an unplanned launch failure. Whilst in the air they explored stalls in different situations. Jamie was very pleased with Misha's flying and said he is definitely well on his way to his big goal of going solo.
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| Misha and Jamie waiting for a cable. |
Solo pilots Viktor Skochko and Sean Westrope each flew with me to start their Pilot Annual Reviews. Both flew well to nearly complete their reviews.
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| Sean under the rainbow for luck maybe. |
Last flight of the day saw Phil Hardwick come from the winch to hangar fly the K13.
A day spent dodging showers, but we achieved 17 flights, but everybody flew on a day where we were not expecting a lot of flying. Thanks to all at the airfield today. Just nice to fly with all this unsettled weather at the moment.
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