Tuesday 2 February 2016

Saturday 23rd Jan

After a bit of a late start the K13 was sat on line just in time for a  bank of very low cloud to arrive at the airfield! Jon Carlton sat in the K13 for about 10 minutes in the vain hope that it would pass quickly - but it didn't so the launch point was abandoned and the team went and had some soup. Conditions cleared by about 1pm, and then Paul Fletcher (Duty Instructor) did some check flights, including simulated cable breaks, which were quickly followed by some real ones.  We had a visitor from Snitterfield as well as the normal suspects. Lucy, Lech & Paul all encountered some odd reduced sink close to the kart track but otherwise there was no lift to be found. I guess this is normal for January, in spite of the very mild winter. Paul reports that the hangar packing was much more organised than our appalling efforts the previous week, and that everything was packed away before dark!