Friday

Mick was doing a few NPPL lessons in the motorglider and I turned up early afternoon after work to fly a member of the local press.

Cloudbase was around 1700ft, quite blustery and it looked like the forecast front was going to put paid to any afternoon flying. However this was not the case; I took an aerotow in the K21 at about 2:30pm to show our visitor what gliding is all about, and although we were sculking around the cloudbase on an extended tow, he still had an enjoyable flight. There were a few areas of reduced sink and if the wind hadn't been quite so strong we might have had a few more minutes airborne.

We retired to the clubhouse whilst other club members turned out to fly the motorglider - it must have been airborne most of the day.