Flying Report Sat 3 Feb 24

For those who remembered to change their alarms (only a few!), this was the first Saturday flying day of the new season.  The false promise in the forecast of good conditions……

…..soon gave way to reality and, sadly, the weather quickly deteriorated with cloud base drifting between 1,600 and 2,000ft, a lot of turbulence and eventually rain.

After last week’s episode of Chicken Run starring #vulvanbomber, there was a bribe in the shape of lemon drizzle cake, to rig R35 at the start of the day and so the first launch didn’t get away until 1100.

It was a warm welcome for our latest batch of MEF gliding scholarship students Molly, Harry and Max and, given the short flying window, they were made our priority.  Each got in a couple of trips,  Molly flew with The Vicar, Max with Colin and Harry with Matthew.  Thanks for helping out on the airfield and we hope that you enjoyed your short introduction to this super world of gliding.

Oh, and we now have a ”Flight Instructor” on the airfield but no one quite knows what important stuff he does – watch this space!

Rain brought an end to flying at around 1400 but in the short window we got everyone away.  In the conditions it was up and down with the longest flight at 19 minutes.  With all aircraft back in Hangar 4 our attention turned to the Tin Shed.  Armed with a few can openers, a committee formed to decide how to de-rig the Tin Shed for its Annual.

This run of poor weather is frustrating. Fingers crossed for next weekend.