The Juniors Winter Series Visit - 13-15th April 2018

Last weekend we were visited by the BGA 'Juniors group' as part of their Winter Series flying weekends. People started arriving on Friday night, Ben & the Loughborough team cooked masses of curry and made sure everyone was fed. Saturday turned out sunny at last! Thanks guys!

Alan C & helpers organised the launchpoint with great efficiency, Paul F, Paul D, Alan L and helpers flew lots of the juniors in the various club and visitor two seaters, and some of the single seaters went cross country too. We did 93 flights in total, including aerotows using both the Chipmunk and Christine's cub. In the evening we had chilli & curry, plus lots of beer.

 

Paul, happy at getting back into the air at last with the DG.

Sadly the Sunday weather wasn't as good, but there was still some winching done by some keen students.

Thanks to everyone who helped out at the weekend, particularly the launchpoint helpers, instructors, winch drivers & retrievers at the 'business end' and the catering folks/bar/ground organisers at the other end. Great teamwork from club members, LUGC and the other visitors. A tiring but fun weekend. Next event is the Interclub Weekend on the first May Bank Holiday. See you there.    

Loughborough UGC update

Not the best week for weather but the Loughborough group made good use of what was available. We had a good days flying on Sat 7th, followed by a team dinner. Sunday was scrub, as was Monday.

Tuesday was cable break day, and some more ground school. Four of the group passed their Bronze paper : Miles, Jack V, Emma & Ben below:

On Friday there was more flying - congratulations to Jack Vincent who went solo!

In the evening Ben and friends made industrial quantities of curry for the many Juniors pilots who turned up for the weekend's 'Winter Series' meet. Saturday was good, with lots more flying, and Emma completed her first hour long soaring flight. Here is the team photo for the week. Great to have you all visiting, and look forward to seeing some of you again in summer.

Loughborough UGC Visit

We have a bunch of students from Loughborough University Gliding Club with us this week - please continue to make them welcome! Weather has been dire, but we had a busy Saturday doing lots of check flights and cable breaks once it stopped raining. Miles and friends cooked for us all after flying, so a good day was had by all.

Meanwhile up in the top hangar Steve is making great progress with our new facilities!

And last but not least , we have 4 new members...they're very small & glued to their Mum (Smudge2, who as adopted us) at the moment but they'll probably come out to play in a few weeks when weaned:

Thursday 5th April

Alert - sun seen at Shenington on Thursday!

This enables the new gel on Q5 to be shown to great advantage, as in this photo from Lech: