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Sunday 17th – cold at 4000′

It was great to find two new members at the launch point as we walked the gliders down. We’d thought that we’d only need one two-seater but that soon changed with Peter Elison easily distracted from removing sheep ‘residue’ from the private Puchacz to fly one of the new members and a couple of trial lessons.

Rob Jarvis and Chris Keating had decided it would be a Ka8 day and Rob duely proved it with the longest flight of the day with an hour and seven minutes. Meanwhile Graham Tanner took me to cloudbase at 4000′ above ground where it was distinctly chilly. Well it is October.

I could have done without encountering the wing of the Puchacz on my way out of the hanger at the end of the day. Many thanks to those who patched me up. You’ll be pleased to hear the wing was completely unharmed.

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Visit to Parham Saturday 16th

After our little trip to Eden didn’t quite go to plan we thought we would finish the week off with a day trip to Parham.

A 1000ft aerotow was all that was needed to get us onto the ridge which was working quite well, and so we set off to see how far we could go.

Rod flew his Swales for a couple of hours of so but seemed to prefer to stay low to scare the rabbits (just like at Eden last year!)

All in all not a bad day, great fun on the ridge and i’m still current on aerotow!

Maybe we should organise a return trip with a club two seater?

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Saturday 16th October

After the early morning low cloud cleared we were hopeful for some ridge action, alas the ridge was too westerly and too slight for the NNE 12kt wind, but good launches allowed training progress and annual check opportunities. Welcome to the 2 new members who signed up today.

Thanks to some hard work, the guys refurbishing the other K13 (JPC) have made significant progress and the argument over the final colour will soon be due.