Thursday 18 July

Adrian finished working on the Disco before it got too hot. Meanwhile Steve was putting the final touches to his fabulous rendering of the west end of the ground hangar after working every morning for the last couple of weeks on the project in the tremendous heat - Jobs well done.

Blue sky and lots of sunshine again, clouds were forecast to appear by lunchtime. The morning flying proved to be a slow start as work on the cable had to be completed after the end had fallen off the drum.

Training progressed steadily with Peter and Adam continuing BI course alongside. Private owners arrived at the west end  en-masse at lunch time.

Adrian Jantar FDX got to Yeovil and Tiverton for 120 km, Gordon  H  Kestrel 575 collected local turnpoints for 137 km, Tom  DG1 completed 5 hours. Wyn LS7 W7 got to Chievely but landed out at The Park on the way back, Pete St Discus 230 completed a double O/R Shaftesbury, Wellington, Blandford for 308 km, and Ron and Lisa in ASH25 711 (following in Liam's footsteps?) went to Wantage and back  also 308 km.

Meanwhile back at the airfield,Congratulations to Ruth and Rick in KHA for their Silver heights, and commiserations to Ian G in FZF which had a problem with the logger.

Congratulations to Peter Sm for successfully completing his BI course with Adam.

In the evening, a group from Mitie with Mark L enjoyed some good evening flying and a barbeque.