Saturday 30 March 2013

Soaring and Snowing on Good Friday


A small but keen bunch braved the cold and still very wet airfield - yes those are ducks! Mark M, Ed, Phil and Eleanor S and myself took advantage of the conditions with a couple of flights over an hour and Ed having his first solo soaring flight! Also thanks to Peter N for lending a hand to get me in the air.

At times thermals were averaging 4 knots to 4,000ft, but a thick layer of overcast later meant that those conditions soon died away and brought some snow with it, so all was packed away by 2:30. When does Spring get here? I'm bored of the cold.

Sunday 10 March 2013

Disability Hoist on the way

Assessment of our disability lifting device was successful, we have placed an order so should have it in operation by our Open Day on 1st Apr.