Sunday Soaring

It was a soarable flying day, with 45 launches, lots of annual checks and instructor checks. I took a couple of launches and encouraged by Tony's soaring flight, I took the next winch launch and got away for 28minutes. We were launching into an cold easterly wind, and it often looked as if streets were setting up - only to disappear very quickly replaced with a large blue hole, discussions at the launchpoint suggested this might be due to some wave interference. A few others had some soaring, but with cloudbase at only 1500ft there wasn't any opportunity to fly very far away.
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Bruno got HVQ on the flight line, and helped out duty instructor Derek S with club flying after having first taken it for a spin with Mary!

Congratulations to Tony Taylor who completed his CFI acceptance checks for his BI rating. Well done also to Mick for completing his annual BI checks. Others out flying included Dave P, Lucy, Bob, Geoff , Jon C, Alistair, Dave S, Sue, Paul M and junior pilots Abbi, Michael S-G and Tom K. Gavin finished off the day with an aerobatics flight in the K21.
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John Donavan did a sterling job flying the scout group in the falke, helped by Ian for a couple of launches. Tim Donovan was also flying his Grob 109 taking one of the scout leaders for a short flight.

Thanks to Christine for towing and to Robin, Tony, Dave P and Jane for helping out on the winch, Jon C, Mike, Jessie, Lucy and the scouts for helping at the launchpoint and keeping the log.