Wednesday’s forecast was almost right – apart from the wind direction, the cloudbase and the level of sunshine! The wind was more south than expected, the cloudbase was lower than expected and there was less sun on the ground than expected. Despite the negatives it was a fairly good day for late October as we managed to keep going all day in the rather chilly wind.
Pete Smith being the lone instructor did a sterling job of working through the two-seater list along with Chris Warnes who looked after the two First Flights.
Pete limited the training flights to two which allowed enough time for Francesco Taxis to complete his first solo after the obligatory simulated launch failure practice. Christian Sheer followed a similar fate so that he could capitalise on his first solo a few weeks ago by completing two more.
The Junior and occasionally the Perkoz was kept occupied by the more experienced post solo pilots with some having extended flights in the zero sink. The longest being 23 minutes by Pete Startup (who else?).
We were always going to be up against it today with only one instructor plus the clocks having gone back an hour at the weekend, but we nearly got everyone flown – Close but no cigar! Fortunately two people were more than happy with their day, well done Francesco and Christian. – Mark Layton
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