It was a typical early October morning when the ab-initio briefings were about abbreviated circuits after entering cloud during the launch, whilst the trial lessons were waiting to see if we had flights appropriate for their first venture into the air by winch. New members Merv, Steve and Andy kept us going and Matt Page once again manned the winch most of the day - thanks Matt, no-one would have flown much at all without that help.

Thankfully Jon Huband came to help out so Dave Gardiner handed the last few TLs to him and drove the winch for a bit - thanks Dave. Previous member Reg Gardner over from Aus also helped out and was hoping a few more members whom he could reminisce with were about.

The launches gradually got higher, even getting a bit of blue towards late afternoon and circuits came after some upper air exercises at last. We finished after doing a couple of dozen flights, all flew who wanted to. I guess an OK for a muggy October.

And yes I know it's August though... but hey, it was a Bank Holiday so what did we expect?