Arriving at the club
today for the afternoon shift of launch point marshall duty, I expected a
detailed hand-over from Mr Williamson who was on the morning shift. As
it turned out, I was just in time to see Ron Johns launch in the ASH.
"Who's flying with him?". "Matthew Williamson" came the reply!
However, having inspected the list and noting the four people awaiting
training I did manage to forgive him.
The
weather was glorious and the sky was improving by the minute. Jill and
Pete Harmer in OL and Pete Startup in 230 followed Ron & Matthew into the air to
make the most of the conditions. Mike Sloggett was enjoying flying his
own glider ENW after a busy course week. Simon Minson swapped instructor
hats with Ian Mitchell who got busy putting Josh Funnell through his paces
before sending him off for an excellent soaring flight. Mike squeezed
in a trial lesson in between ASW20 flights with Linda who has to be
congratulated on conquering her fear. The beautiful weather was
bringing in the visitors with two 'walk-ins' - Sarah and Matthew flying
with Simon and Ian respectively, Matthew taking the opportunity to have
the full mile high experience.
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| James and Lisa in G-CDSC and Stu and Guy in B-BKVG |
James
Hood with Lisa Humphries and Stuart Proctor with Guy Adams took the motor gliders
to visit Dorset gliding club for a cup of tea. On her return Lisa took
the opportunity to take a K21 for an early evening flight and found
copious amounts of lift, reaching 3000ft from the launch in about 5
minutes!
The
cross country pilots had started to drift in - Pete Startup and Ron
& Matthew both making Dorchester 124Kms using blue wispies to get there and a weak sea breeze convergence to get home. Jill and Pete had hung around for a bit waiting for the cloudbase to rise, and then a couple of streets just appeared, so they followed the energy to South Molton and back.
A great day in the sun :) - Tim Peters
