Allan and Mike have offered to provide Duty Instructor cover for Tuesdays and Thursdays until the end of September.
The rota dates can be found here: Instructor Rota
Allan and Mike have offered to provide Duty Instructor cover for Tuesdays and Thursdays until the end of September.
The rota dates can be found here: Instructor Rota
John D has offered to be our duty instructor on Thursday 25th July so normal operation with instruction and trial-lesson / voucher flying will be available.
Don’t forget, non-instructional flying will be available under the Senior Club Pilot system on all other days this week.
The SCP will run the field but there can be NO INSTRUCTION of any sort undertaken. That means we cannot take Trial Lessons or undertake check flights or site checks or conduct any ab-initio training etc.
P1 Flying is restricted to pilots holding a Bronze C + Cross Country endorsement (EASA Licence standard). Pilots must be current on winch launch and the glider type they are flying. No authorisation for cross country flights in club gliders may be given, although this may be obtained if the CFI can be contacted.
If you do not fit the EASA Licence criteria, you will still be able to get airborne but it would need to be with a suitably rated pilot, flying to their privileges, BUT NOT PROVIDING INSTRUCTION. This is a strict requirement and MUST BE COMPLIED WITH in these circumstances.
This weeks SCPs are :
Monday – Geoff G
Tuesday – Nick J
Wednesday – Steve P
Thursday – Chris B
Friday – Daniel B
We are open every day this week.
Alan W will be duty instructor Monday to Thursday and Mike C will be covering Friday.
There are courses on but there will be extra instructors available if members require check flights or instruction.
Dan B is organising another group-buy for CAA 1:500,000 airspace charts.
If you or your syndicate require one, please let Dan know.
The price is £13.10 each delivered to you at the club.
TPS will be on site around the 15th of April to repack club parachutes.
Private owners wishing to have their parachutes repacked can do so for £25. They are advised to contact Daniel B for more details. A list to add your name to for parachute repacking will be up in the clubhouse on Saturday.
What do you get with a brisk Easterly wind and a bitterly cold day? What you get is some brilliant flying weather!
It was a very slow start with only 6 members on site by 10am and very little enthusiasm to fly. But the field had dried out really well and we could even do a 2 cable full out and so with a little persuasion (ok a lot) we finally got the toys out on the understanding we would finish at lunch time. We only took one 13 to the far end which was the correct decision at the time with the numbers on site but a decision we were to regret later.
The first flight was as expected until the downwind leg when we flew through some good lift. The second flight was much better gaining some 400′ and lasting 15mins. From then on for the lucky ones it just got better with Humph and Pete getting to 2300′ with a 28min flight before lunch. We decided to stop for a warm up in the clubhouse and after lunch Phil Pa. and lucky me as ballast managed 32min and 2700′ (Sorry Humph).
We really could have done with another K13 as 4 more members had turned up but by the time we landed nearly all the lift had gone. Not a lot of launches but we had a great day with some very unexpected flying, Well worth the effort and I think we all learned a lesson, if it looks flyable give it a go cos you never know.
And finally many thanks to Phil P who stood in at the very last minute as duty instructor.
See you soon, Steve.
The field was still rather marsh-like today and the only viable option due to the (strong) North-Westerly wind was to takeoff from the SE hard runway edge and land along ’34 hard’ in the wheeled aircraft and within a few feet of it on the grass in aircraft with skids.
Still, plenty of eager pilots turned out. A full contingent from University of Warwick Gliding Club attended. We had some trouble with ground vehicles but nothing that couldn’t be cured with a large blunt instrument or tow-starting.
It looked initially like training would be the order of the day but in the early afternoon some cumulus began to form in cloud-streets running on a roughly NNW line. The three K13s which we had out began to soar for increasingly long durations.
Ultimately there were two flights over an hour in duration and while no serious cross-country flying was attempted, one aircraft climbed to just a sniff over 4,000ft and perhaps a couple of hundred feet short of cloud base.
In total 35 launches were flown and every who wanted or needed to fly did so. What a lovely day for February!
We have published our 2013 Season Calendar detailing course dates and member flying days.
7 day operations will begin on Monday 6th May and extend to at least Friday 27th September with possibly an extra week depending on the weather.
You can download the 2013 Season Calendar in PDF format.
Thursday Evenings at 7.30pm in the Clubhouse.
Date Subject Lecturer
28th February Principals of flight Steve F
7th March Principals of flight Steve F
14th March Principals of flight Steve F
28th March Navigation Part 1 Andy B
4th April Navigation Part 2 Andy B
11th April Air Law Pete
18th April Meteorology Steve P
25th April Airmanship & Radio Steve B
2nd May Bronze C Exam Steve B