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Seeing that the Ridge at Parham would be working Rod,Chris, Paul, Carol and myself trailed our gliders down there to have a day of ridge running.

All you need is a 1,000 ft aerotow and then you are away…… some more away than others….read on!

Rod and Paul in their Puchacz managed 2 hours and Carol and I just 1 3/4 hrs. Chris was hoping to do epic things but unfortunately pushed on a little too far and only managed about 20 mins. Not wanting to say who landed out but the figures speak for themselves 🙂

All in all a good ridge day with plenty of opportunities to get down and dirty……..again some more than others. Still it was a good field we pulled the glider out of even though it meant I had to reverse the Janus Trailer a good way down a narrow winding road in the dark to get back to the main road!

Phil

… and we shall have LIFT.  Maybe not on a par with the last northerly day but lots of extended flights.  Bob B set the benchmark on the first launch of the day in the Vega with 39 minutes.  Steve B and I rigged our gliders and Steve was rewarded with almost an hour off 2 launches and I got just over the hour off one launch.

…Yes, as usual superb E team weather! Whilst cold, it was still )well, very light cross-wind-with-a-hint-of-tail) and sunny so it was very pleasant out on the field. We had two trial lessons both of whom had a great time, all three two-seaters were out as well as the K8 & Vega so thanks to Steve O for helping out when a rating in excess of BI was needed. This enabled us to give quite a lot of flying to deserving club members Steve T, Selvam and Jim McC – good progress all round. Equally deserving (I have to say that as he’s an important E team member!) is Graham, to whom congrats are due for soloing the Puch today for the first time. Thanks to all who were there making it happen and having a nice day out!

Was a beautiful sunny Autumn or Winter’s day depending on your point of view regarding seasonal matters. A light breeze and mostly cloudless sky made the air temp an irrelevancy. Mostly circuits with new member Paolo showing the South American way of doing these things albeit if my attempts to convince him that the local Buzzard population were in fact Andean Condors were unsurprisingly rebuked…

Phil and Ken went soaring, it was a full cat kind of a day.

Alan and Paul even rigged.

View from JMX, 11/11/12