Gliding Feb 14th 2016

What a Busy day! Gorgeous thermals day on a sunny Sunday. Great turnup with 7 flights in JW and 9 tows in total. Conditions were such that it was often hard to get down due to the density of thermals in the area!

The days soaring begins

Pete and Roland went up and had a great day soaring around the area. Pete went exploring off to St Bathans before doing his usual thing of attempting to land out somewhere, failing by regaining altitude and making it back to the club after spending another half day in the sky.

Roland had a great soaring flight out to the Remarkables, down to Roxburgh and back to the airfield where he kindly gave Doug the chance to win a free bottle of wine by attempting to perform a wheels-up landing. Thankfully Doug was up to the challenge and Roland performed a perfectly normal landing instead before granting Doug with his prize.

To the sky today please sir

Meanwhile at the airfield light winds enabled us for some rapid turn-arounds on JW, taking off and landing in exactly the same place. Nick and Masato both went up with Doug for some training and local soaring. Wills had a check flight in JW, then took to the skies on his own for his 3rd solo flight and first solo soaring flight. Afterwards Doug had a trial flight, then Allen took off and had a play on his own around the area. Finally Jaques and Doug went up for an early evening soar before we all called it a day.

Big thanks to Doug for instructing and to Russel, for flying down from Dunedin then spending all day in the tow plane!

Next Sunday no flying is scheduled, however we are having a work day on JW for anyone that would like to help out. See Phil for details.