Judging by the numbers who turned up at the start of the day you might have thought that the BBC were going to arrive with a film crew!  Well, they were but the weather beat us; yet another non-flying day with rain, sleet, hail and a low cloud base all in the mix.

A great shame, especially for our MEF students who had braved M54 closures to make it over from Cosford.

With flying scrubbed it was an opportunity to fire up the simulator and rehearse the theory of flight with Toby and Will, and to go through some of the essential cockpit drills with Amelia.

It was also a chance for Colin to sign off some of our members to undertake DIs on both the glass and the wood aircraft.

We can only hope that the weather plays ball next Saturday for a visit by BBC Midlands and BBC Radio Shropshire.