Evening all, what a nice day’s flying we’ve had today. We started slightly later than ideal after a certain person who shall remain nameless drank from the Great Fir Cup and then had to call all hands for some time to convert the macrame back into launch cable. But hey, it can happen to anyone, even the CFI…(oops!) The time was not lost though as recent recruits (well, both since I went off on my summer overseas jaunting) Justin and Tony amongst others learnt their way around the half-mil map along with some basics on navigation. And indeed once we launched, Justin’s soaring skills meant we were able to test his navigational learning with a trip partway to Membury…and…squeak..back again. Most of the showers missed us, all pilots present flew until they were flown out and then we popped them back in the hangar and pootled home. Result!
Saturday 7th September
When the day starts like this:
You might expect this:
But maybe not this:
Pseudo sea Breeze Front/Convergence over Newbury.
It was lonely up there – where wus you all?
Wednesday 4th September
Another blue day which saw Alan Pettit rig half his vintage fleet, Bill Cook providing open cockpit flying for all and sundry in the T21 and Paul McGrory taking on the Vega (which won by a short head). By mid afternoon few aircraft remained on the ground apart from Trevor’s Jantar which, as ever, was yet to be rigged. Steve Ottner managed to keep the LS3 airborne for a couple of hours – allegedly by stalking combine harvesters.
Spot the odd one out:
(The cat didn’t pay for the launch.)
Saturday 31st August – and summer keeps rolling on
The launch point at 15:00 under a clear blue sky:
Airborne and out of sight – in alphabetical order:
ASW15 (albeit on the ground somewhere near Didcot), Cirrus, Janus, Ka8, 2 X Ka13s, LS3, Nimbus and Puchacz.
Returned from a late flight in EEF to find airfield closed and SMS saying crew in pub!