Friday was the hottest day of the summer so far according to Garry Speight.
Wendy Medlicott flew her LS8 early on in the day for an hour and a half, before handing it over to Harry just when the conditions were getting good. There was quite a westerly wind blowing, so I did another check flight with Kurt before letting him loose on his own again. I covered the altimeter, but he did an excellent circuit without it.
David Sieb had his first flight in the Jantar Standard, and had three hours and 14 minutes. The takeoff and landing were faultless! David is a highly accomplished hang glider pilot, and seems to have taken to sailplane flying like a duck to water.
Kurt did four solos in the Puchatek but was only able to soar on the last one - but managed just over an hour on that one.
Roy Worthington flew the Junior, and Al Giles his Jantar. Geoff Neely flew his DG400.
Roy landed the Junior on Runway 20 and I was helping him to tow it back to the hangars when I thought it was a pity not to fly it back as the tug was just waiting! So I hopped in and took a launch. Boris found me a thermal over the lake and I released in it - apparently only about 1000 ft. I climbed up to 6500ft and had to airbrake down again to put the glider away and go back to work. Nice sort of lunch break!
Our visitors from the Hastings and District Aerotow started to arrive, and I took one of them, Carolyn, for a trial instructional flight in the Grob. Despite only having flown aeroplanes from the right had seat a few times, she flew very well.
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