Garry Speight flew in his twin astir and invited Patricia Healy to accompany him, which she accepted. Dave Turner, (Hornet GMZ) Gerhard Stuck (Jantar 2 UKU), Ray Tilley (ASW27 RT), John Hoye (LS6 KYL), Ian Barraclough (Grob 103 GFP) and John Wakefield (Jantar 2 IZV) flew and most attempted the task. Most of the flights have been posted on the OLC. Garry and Patricia flew 335 km and John Hoye 350km. Ray had a good flight too, but seems to have misplace the lead for downloading his logger!
Meanwhile Nigel and I did some soaring practice, some emergencies, culminating in him going solo at the end of the day. He had two successful solo flights, but I am in trouble with Patricia for sending him off before she got back to film the event!
An amusing thing happened on one of my flights with Nigel - I had arranged with Juho that if I clicked the radio mike a couple of times, it meant he was to wave us off. During one flight, someone came though loudly on the radio, said he could hear everything clearly. Thinking the mike must have been stuck on (stupid because wouldn't have heard anything if it had been) I pressed the button a couple of times to unstick it and guess what! We got waved off! Not a problem, but usually its only supposed to be the student that's surprised!
Anyway we all had a great day, followed by a good yarn under the shade sail in the evening, with Champagne to celebrate Nigel's solo flight.
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