Friday at Lake Placid and at Pendleton

Lake Placid - low cloud and rain.  New oxygen cylinders - 300 cu ft at above 2200 psi - were delivered Thursday, and a lot of pilots availed themselves of the opportunity to refill their cylinders. I decided to call it a week, and 2D is back at Pendleton. 

Pendleton, from Douglas Laurie-Lean:

 

GGC Members:

 

Today was cold and bleak but turned out to be another good training day. The sun came over the horizon through my bedroom window brightly at 0600 hrs, under a blue sky. However by the time I was driving to the airfield it was overcast and cold, and the initial ceiling was at about 2,000 ft, rising up to 3,000 ft., by the afternoon. We had 17 training flights. Nine in IFX and eight in the 'Bluebird'.

Robert Pelley and Nathan Leung, each had two training flights in IFX, and John Schmidt had two solo flights in it. Jeff Schneider had a couple of solo flights and then I gave him his Glider Pilot Licence Flight Test, which he passed with 'flying colours'. He just needs to have Wolfgang, as CFI, complete the form and paperwork and he is a licenced glider pilot  -  WELL DONE JEFF.

Nathan, although very softly spoken did two very good flights without much need of instructional input. Phil Kerrigan did about six solo flights in the 'Bluebird', with one instructional check flight.

Thanks again for Simon Dufour as our trusty TOW PILOT.

 

Regards,

 

Douglas