It was quiet on Saturday at the airfield, but
your intrepid crew braved the cold to bring
you this report.
Well, really we turned up to fly, but here's a
report anyway.
Core crew of Peter John, Karl Bodi, Steve
Chapman and myself were joined by Alan Graham.
One AEI booked.
A cold morning and a day that stayed cold in
the shade. It didn't look very promising but
with little wind and a bright winter sun, it
didn't look too terrible either.
Alan Graham gave me a call during 1st
breakfast to tell me he would be along and I
managed to mumble through some McBacon that it
would be a pleasure to see him.
With one AEI flight booked, it was decided to
leave GYK chocked in position in case we had
some punters later on, but that we should DI
both CQC and GYK just in case.
A beautiful white retrieve Barina in CGC
colours was our club house for the day.
The car works great, though it might not seem
like it, reverse is there, you just have to
believe in it. Read the instructions on the
dash before using it.
Runway 24 looked like the go and Alan managed
to swing a quick check flight with Peter just
before our AEI Joseph Barrowcliffe turned up.
Karl managed to entertain Joseph for 57
minutes from a 3500 launch, which was an
excellent result. This was Joseph's second go
at an AEI flight.
Joseph turned up last week for a very short
flight after a 4500 release, so he was very
happy with the flight today.
Peter went up again with Alan for check flight
part 2, and I took a flight with Peter as
well.
Jacob and Tony Mason arrived for a hanger
flight, and we had the gliders put away by
15:30.
5 flights in CQC, total time 2 hours 6
minutes.
Job done and everyone happy.
Pictures would have been nice but we were
having too good a time to remember to take
any.