Well, we started the year as we mean to go on - we got the hangar doors open for 8.30, then promptly went for a coffee. Eventually there was enough people to fly and we took the PW6 down to the far end, only to return it to the hangar half an hour later as we couldn't scrape the ice off fast enough. The K13 fared better and yours truly had the first flight of the new decade - a launch to 1,950' and couple of loops (3 knots too slow on the second one according to the critics on the ground). Thereafter first-footers Richard Kill, Paul Lazenby, John Bellamy, Tony Hayes. Jerry Liber, Paul Gentil and Mark Verden enjoyed launches to 2,000', views across to the the snow capped Black Mountains and extended flights in the incredibly still air. Let's hope the wall to wall sunshine bodes well for the rest of the year.
Tim