Thursday 29th May

Another warm sunny day, with better soaring conditions than the previous days - at least if you could make it to the clouds which were some distance to the north.

Geoff Sim arrived in his Lancair at about 0930 - first visit to Keepit since his epic motorcycling trip in South America.

Steve Hedley flew OZ and motored across to the clouds (as you do with a self launcher) and had a good day thereafter, clocking up 270 km on the OLC. Chris Bowman courageously towed to 3000ft AGL away from the field, still short of the clouds, but was able to glide over to them and get up. He then went to Boggabri and back.

Meanwhile back at the field, after a check ride with Allan Buttenshaw, Tim Brooks had another solo flight in the Grob. Allan wanted to coach him in the skill of thermalling with other gliders, but there were no thermals and no other gliders close enough to the field to achieve that objective. After lunch, we sent him up in the Junior, and he had two flights in it. Another achievement for Tim.