Another sunny but rather stable day. The weather forecast indicated similar conditions to yesterday, but today there were tantalising cumulus clouds over to the north east, but out of our reach.
We set a duration task - with a bottle of wine for the longest flight. Even with this inducement, some at the club could not be persuaded to take to the air, preferring instead to clean gutters, collect firewood and repair radios and flarms in gliders! We appreciate their work!
For those that did fly, The longest duration was achieved by Geoff Neely in the "new" discus 2 NSO with 1 hour and 52 minutes. He did not however venture far from the airfield. Second place was taken by Tony Edge with a flight of 51 minutes in the junior late in the afternoon, and third Geoff Sim and Ian Barraclough with 44 minutes in the ASH 25, and fourth Alan Monroe with 40 minutes also in the Junior. Fun to see the interest in the flight sheet times at the end of the day. I'm sure scratching is good for you!
Andy McCullum polished off his solo flights to attain his B certificate, but couldn't quite crack the 1 hour mark needed for one of the the C certificate requirements - and neither could anyone else except Geoff Neely!
Juho had to go in the afternoon, so I did the last two tows myself - nice to stay in practice.
The Std Jantar is out of the air for a day or two, as Ray Tilley is repairing the damage to the underside of the fuselage done some time previously probably due to a wheels up landing by the look of it. Thanks very much to Ray.
Another convivial evening in the club house followed thanks to the culinary expertise of Marga Tilley and Ann Bull.
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