First Solo Wins The Day

Congratulations to Josh Brownlow who went solo on his 16th Birthday today - completing over 1hour soaring which also gains him a Bronze leg and a leg for his Cross-Country Endorsement. Doing this on the soaring week gained him 1500pts and puts him in the lead for the week!

Josh’s father Steve, and both grandfathers were all there to see him go solo, infact Steve launched him as his tug pilot. They are all former RAF pilots – and all still fly to this day. He also had an uncle who was an RAF Tornado pilot and another uncle who held a private pilot’s license. Josh’s mum was an air traffic controller in the RAF too!!

Josh after his first solo

Ray Hart congratulates Josh on a flight well flown!

From left to right; grandfather Keith Nunn (former RAF flying instructor, and later a civilian instructor), Josh, Steve (former RAF Jaguar pilot and now an airline pilot with Virgin Atlantic), grandfather John Brownlow (an RAF and civilian test pilot – still flying at the age of 81!)