Hi all

Saturday the 21st  turned out to provide  a better start  than expected  Graham had earlier, decided it would not be good enough to run a task so few cross country boys turned up. Dave was still busy mowing the grass.

The day started with a clear blue sky so we got started early. The first flight was a trial lesson aerotow and Mick took the visitor on a 20 minute soaring flight.The visitor was highly delighted and thoroughly enjoyed the experience

Second aerotow was Roger Tyrrell to 4000 ft to carry out is AFR.

During the day the big wings were out and a couple of soaring flights to entertain the troop.

Then Tez our treasurer took me to 2000 ft a couple of times as a prelude to him doing is first solo aerotow.From his second tow he successfully achieved a nice soaring flight of 30minutes with me sat quietly in the back with the occasional prompt. The thermals were not particularly strong and short lived but Tez's patience was finally rewarded with a good thermal to 3,500ft.

By this time the afternoon was progressing and so were the dark clouds, with heavy rain evident around the field.

Still we weren't getting wet so off on the winch with Roger to do some cable break practise.Having landed at the far end of 28 it was a prudent decision to pop Bruno's Ka13 in the top hanger and wait out the rain.

This soon passed so off we went to start flying again.With only one further launch heavy rain was on the horizon so it was time to call it a day.

Thanks also to Trish Langlands who drove the winch and Rowen with Dave Gould flying the tug.

A successful day and congratulations to Tez and Roger who achieved their objectives.

Also deserving a mention, Al Cooke and Lee, who with a bit of help, successfully laid the new floor covering in the club house kitchen and Tez and Trish got up to speed with some of our accounts.
Bruno was busy completing the ARC for Jon and Roy's glider

Liz and Mike went off for food for the usual Sat night cook in. And Alan, our chairman, and Martin entertained the us in the bar to an early evening  renditions on their Guitars clearly warming up for the final concert at the end of the soaring week. Some real talent.

Derrick