Monday 18 February

Flew with Kurt Wiesman my student for the week on Monday morning. Didn't get going until 1150am so consequently had an hours soaring flight. Kurt has been solo before about 10 years ago, but has done very little gliding since then. He was a bit tense to start with, and needed a break after the long first flight.

Dropped my glasses in the hopper of the tug, and had to climb in to get them. Fortunately it is possible to climb out again - but its a long way down Of course they had to photograph me trying to climb out!

Al Giles flew Jantar IZT.

After lunch we attempted another launch with Kurt, but the rpm in the tug fluctuated badly on take off, so Boris aborted the launch. Good practice that one! It seemed all right again after that and he flew a couple of circuits to test it. Just as we were going back to the launch, the right brake failed again - so that was that for the day.

After many phone calls, we decided to send it to Tamworth for maintenance.

No more gliding today.