Early risers were greeted by a dramatic, ruler-straight frontal cloud aligned North-South some where over the river severn. Beyond it to the West were clear blue skies with the prospect of a cracking day - at AD, underneath the cloud not much was happening. During the course of the morning, while the front inched its way east wards, the two seaters were kept busy doing some refresher training and the CFI rigged his newly refinished Discus, complete with sexy winglets.
The front finally cleared around lunch-time and Doug Gardner and Tom Gooch headed for the Bath Gap. Meanwhile Tim showed Richard how easy it is to rig the Mosquito.
Lara provided the day's entertainment by landing the Astir wheels-up (everyone does it eventually) - luckily, the only damage was to her pride. Even that wasn't too badly damaged as she promptly took off again and stayed up for 2 hours 10 minutes. Not long after that, Tom Gooch phoned in with the first field landing of the year (Paul and Max Lazenby were kind enough to the retrieve).
Bethany's dad flew his new Sport Vega for the first time.
Late in the afternoon, Tim and new member, Paul Mather (he's quite good, for an aussie) took off into an un-promising sky and after a lot of scratching managed to soar to 4,000' . A splendid end to a busy day.
Tim Barnes