John D was Duty Instructor, and helping hin run the show were Jane as BI, Roddy as Tuggy and Glen as LPC. The new launch point bus was out again and working well thanks to the efforts of Lee and Scott who have put in so much work over the past few weeks to complete the conversion for airfield ops!
Paul D was out to fly with me for his annual CFI BI Cx, starting with a tow to 3000ft for some stall/spin revision followed by some winching. Later I also flew with Tony T and had some more cracking winch launches. However, John D did most of the instructing including a number of flights with Sven (over again from Germany for a few days) amongst others. It was a moderate Southerly and we were achieving high winch launches, with John D securing the day record at 1700ft flying solo in the K13. John and Tess W were also out and John W took Lucy for flight and managed to 'ride some energy' to extend the flight a little.
Gavin turned up later, he and Paul F having successfully completed their Ass Cat Completion Courses this weekend at Dunstable with RE Andy Roch. To finish the day Gav and I took a winch launch to around 1500ft and managed to 'hover' into wind at min sink with the wind slowly blowing us backwards over the ground until we were able to 'energy dump' into the top field to complete a circuit without turning! We then ended up buying a round for a "Shenington First"!!!
Paul D was out to fly with me for his annual CFI BI Cx, starting with a tow to 3000ft for some stall/spin revision followed by some winching. Later I also flew with Tony T and had some more cracking winch launches. However, John D did most of the instructing including a number of flights with Sven (over again from Germany for a few days) amongst others. It was a moderate Southerly and we were achieving high winch launches, with John D securing the day record at 1700ft flying solo in the K13. John and Tess W were also out and John W took Lucy for flight and managed to 'ride some energy' to extend the flight a little.
Gavin turned up later, he and Paul F having successfully completed their Ass Cat Completion Courses this weekend at Dunstable with RE Andy Roch. To finish the day Gav and I took a winch launch to around 1500ft and managed to 'hover' into wind at min sink with the wind slowly blowing us backwards over the ground until we were able to 'energy dump' into the top field to complete a circuit without turning! We then ended up buying a round for a "Shenington First"!!!