I arrived with Alan Buttenshaw on Friday to a complete electrical black out and light rain on the way.
Woke up Saturday to power, sunshine and no wind; arranged crews for winch operation. Dave Shorter taught winch driving, Al did retrieves and duty pilot, Mathew Minter and I instructed in the Grob and Puchatek .
I revalidated Bob Emery on the winch and he did a good solo launch. Harry Medlicott took time off welding and flew a visitor friend and I flew his wife, we both had soaring flights. I found 6knts to 6000ft and went to the ranges then returned. I flew with Paul Tridgel who thermalled well for an hour. He recently re-soloed after 130 flights in 1982. He drove the winch whilst I flew with his son Stephen - 6 launches.
Matthew flew with Jim Thompson on the winch. Dave Shorter and Christian went cross country. It was very good of John Hoye, who had turned up for the instructor meeting, to go and retrieve Christian in the Etug.
25 good winch launches, no cable breaks. I was going to give Stephen a power loss half way up but forgot to communicate with the winch; serendipitous timing, as the winch ran out of fuel half way up!!
Sunday dawned clear but 25 kts going to 35 kts at height. No one was keen to fly so the flying was abandoned. You should have been there yesterday.
Nick Singer
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