The duty team was Bob and Ben the instructing men! Additionally, Will D was doing some instructor prep flying for James F. Despite the chilly NW'ly breeze a number of folks turned out to make the best of the conditions. We had the K13, G103 and an Astir out, plus a couple of private owners hurrying to rig - Dave M (LS7) and Simon U (Mosquito) - when Geoff T climbed away for an hour in the 13! As the sky greyed over new member Jason M (returning to gliding after a 3 year break) and I got out the motor-glider but had to delay our departure for half an hour until around 3pm as a large shower passed through washing everyone from the sky. Most sought solice in a hot a cup of tea in the clubhouse. 30 mins later the sky was again blue the lauch-point buzzing. Though the sky was now pretty flat, except for the odd bit of transient shear wave, our 'iron thermal' allowed us several climbs to 4000ft, then engine-off gliding for lots of hands-on time for JM. By the time we landed around 4:20pm the rest of the toys were being safely packed away ahead of another approaching shower, and soon after everyone was ordering beer in the bar.
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