After a rubbish Saturday, Sunday forecast was bright clear and light winds, and with a full day planned. Club members were up early to get the kit out ready for aerotowing, club instruction and completion course training from the south end. First launch was before 10am, straight into the instructor completion courses with Graham Morris for Barry Key and Paul Lazenby. Members took the opportunity to dust off private gliders with Discus, DG300, LS3 and LS6 all busy, together with the ASW19, and one of the PW6’s back on line and the 2 K13s.

Ian Hey arrived with the tug, once again we kept him very busy with tows to 3000ft. Max Lazenby did aerotow training with Chris Gough and they had to abandon the launch about 600ft when turbulence caused divergence and they released but landed back safely. This was also caught on cockpit video so we got some good training footage for this eventuality for future training too. We heard that Nympsfield hadn’t been able to fly at all due to the murk, so the weather change over 6 miles or so really seemed to make a difference.

Ian and the tug left to go back to Kemble about 3pm and Barry and Paul were signed off as completed by Graham, and flying finished about 4pm when the canopies started to mist. Once again an all too rare enjoyable winters day was enjoyed by all.