Weekend 7-8th June

The morning was wet and threatening at Shenington, though never actually got any thunder there but could see the occasional flash towards the North in the distance. Air experience and day course had been cancelled anyway and only a handful of the usual suspects at the club, mostly busy with K13 DDB the workshop.
In the afternoon the sky cleared and looked nice right into the evening.

Sunday looked altogether different from the Saturday start, a surprisingly small number of people turned up for what seemed a promising forecast. Gliders were rigged and prepared and tasks declared.

 The sky looked all for it, but within quite a short time it proved otherwise, heralded by the arrival of three visitors landing out, one from Nympsfied and two from Aston Down. Going by radio traffic, we weren't alone in getting unplanned visitors. 

One AD pilot took a winch launch relight and was back on the ground almost before the next set of cables were out, he then took a 3000' tow and (hopefully) made it home. The Nympsfield pilot got towed to a good looking street heading his way. The other AD pilot had me take him almost all the way home and I enjoyed a nice flight across the Cotswolds in SA.

The streets behind.......

Returning from AD, approaching Moreton in the Marsh

The day course cancelled from Saturday flew with Gavin, and his partner enjoyed a couple of flights too - both were put to work driving the retrieve buggies to help out our short-handed crew, thank you to both! Thanks to all who volunteered or were press-ganged into driving the winch and general duties.

The end of the day.....

Thanks due to all who helped out, we were short handed but with everybody mucking in we had an enjoyable day.

Rowan