From Douglas:
Today started out with an overcast sky, but with some holes in the clouds as the morning developed. It was not a great thermalling or cross-country day, but turned into a good training day. The cloudbase was initially at about 2,500 ft., with some blue holes that we were able to fly up through, and in the afternoon it turned into a sunny, blue sky day, but with minimal lift.
It was, as I said a successful training day with some 18 glider flights. We had 8 in IFX; 6 in BQN; and 3 in the L-33 (Tango Romeo).
Robert Pelley had 3 flights in IFX, Derek Casselman also had 3, and I had two as P1 myself, taking Robert and Derek up as passengers to enjoy the scenery. Phil Kerrigan is enjoying himself with 5 solo flights in BQN, and Wally Wilson had a solo flight in BQN. Peter Bauer had 2 flights in Tango Romeo, and Wally had one.
The highlight of the day was the last flight in which Luc Savoie flew his newly acquired Pik 20 for the first time and although not ascending to great heights, was high on oxygen (His competition call sign is O2, and the registration is C-GFUN) - so figure that out.
Simon Dufour, as usual was our trusty TOW PILOT (MANY THANKS), and Ron Smith did the last tow for Luc Savoie. John Wyman did one of the instructional flights, and by way of volunteerism spent a lot of the day splitting logs for the Club - THANK YOU JOHN.
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