Sunday the 10th April
Very quiet start, not many club members around, must have been exhausted after Saturday! Some private owners joined us at the launch point looking at a sky that had a lot of high cover which didn't bode well for an epic day. However from about 1130 it was quite thermic with one of my P2s turning from the top of the launch into a steady 6 knots to 3500', much to her surprise! all the private owners had some lengthy flights. Visitor Will from Shobdon joined to get some winch experience, Jonathan Apperley flew our trial lesson bookings and Jonathan Huband shared the instructing with me. Later in the afternoon two Australian visitors turned up hoping for a flight, one was a gyrocopter instructor and the other a tug and glider pilot, both were great fun to fly with and both had soaring flights. We finished around 1730 when we had run out of members.
Thanks to Martin Hayward and Matt Page who covered the winching for the afternoon and to Ava, Will, John P, Jack and Jacqui for the ground operations.
