On Monday, there were two private owners and one club member flying single seat gliders who launched in the late morning and had nice flights of 2, 3, and 4 hours.
After ground school in our wonderful clubhouse, the seven instructor candidates (two from Rideau Valley Soaring and five from Gatineau Gliding Club) came out to the airfield and got the 3 two-seat club gliders to the flight line, and began the first of ten instructional flights in the curriculum. The course is conducted by the Chair of the SAC FTSC (see previous posting), Dan Cook is being assisted by senior instructors from RVSS and GGC and the Chief Flying Instructor of Gatineau. Other GGC members are helping with logkeeping, launching, and returning landed gliders to the flight line.
Each of the candidates had two flights, and experienced many of the common events to junior instructors; concentrating on the lessson and not so much the location of the airport; words which didn't appear when needed; and sometimes getting ahead of themselves... This will get better over the next eight flights.
After a quick dip in our Olympic size pool to cool off, the candidates started preparing for the Tuesday flights and ground lesson plans which they will give under the watchful eyes of the Class I instructors.
Thanks to John Kahn for his work as the tow pilot. There were 16 flights, including the towplane test flight, last takeoff just after 6 pm, totaling 13 hours and a few minutes.
Tuesday morning, the forecast for a whole bunch of rain means that after morning groundschool, we are not likely to do a lot of flying, but will use the CONDOR Flight Simulator in the clubhouse to progress, and probably do a little of Wednesday's academics, so we can get back to the schedule. The remaining week's weather looks great, and it is quite likely that we'll be able to finish up on time.
We thank the candidates for giving up a week of holidays to give back to the sport they love.
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