Depending on which forecast you studied today would give us a three star soaring day (RASP) or rain/showers all day (Local Met Office). As there were only seven pilots at the club most were erring for the latter forecast. With things looking bright enough to fly, we set about setting the field up to fly. A k13 and the Twin Astir were taken to the east end launchpoint.
The only trainee today was Aiden Hughes and flew with me first. Experiencing slow flight and presenting him with a unusual circuit was all flown well and sees him well on through the syllabus.
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| Airfield at the top of the picture. |
I swapped gliders to the Twin Astir for Sean Westrope to have his first flight on type. Sean found the different glider interesting.
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| Sean ready for first flight on type. |
Steve Fletcher and Phil Hardwick took turns to be P1 in the Twin Astir to keep current on type.
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| Steve and Phil keeping current. |
John Smith came from the winch to have a flight in the Astir 77, but was delayed due to another shower passing through.
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| John waiting to fly. |
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| And returns. |
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| View of the launch point. |
For those of you who may be counting names, you will notice one person missing. This was John Osment who spent time at the winch getting ready to be cleared. A small group at the club toda, but we did manage to fly between showers. Thanks to everyone today.
Peter Howarth
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