Answer, yep!   It worked.  

Just want to thank Gavin for his amazing stamina and inspiration last few weeks as course instructor....and wasn't he lucky with the weather?   And thanks to Paul Barnes for changing the rear tyre on the K13.

While I was there yesterday, the last of the good weather on Tuesday, 7 May,  Richard Allen flew the K13 solo for 70 minutes, well done.   Gavin and I took an aerotow, and after an hour of looking at local historical and geographical features on a Kineton/Banbury/Hook Norton cross country, had to descend with airbrakes....could have stayed longer!