Weekend Report: Winter Rules

Saturday was extremely quiet but most of the team turned up. The instructor ,Ian Forbes, was kept busy instructing on his own. Craig Hopkins and Ryno Oosthuisen were the students. Brian Cole and Ryno, the duty pilots, took turns flying. Brian flew his Pipistrel and the Hepburns kept the circuit busy with the Lambada. Rob Kakebeeke made it back from Beaufort West in his Karat after spending a few days there due to bad weather.

The weather on Saturday started out with a very strong NW at dawn which calmed to about 15kph at 9.30am and stayed like that until early afternoon when it changed to a light SE.

Sunday was even worse with low cloud at approx 1000’ which lifted in patches at about midday. No gliders were taken out but we kept the Falke busy all day with conversions, paxes and intros. We have a new member – Victoria Norris (17 and a half years old) who is extremely keen to learn to fly! She had her first flight with Martin in the Falke and joined the club after they landed! Adriaan and Adri took off at about 1300hrs and came back two hours later in the Lambada.

Thanks to my duty partner – Garth Milne – and the instructors: Martin and Fred as well as Rico who was on standby the entire day. A light drizzle persisted from about 3.00pm and made conditions extremely cold and unpleasant, but the company was great: William Whittaker, Helmut von Michaelis and Terry Pattinson, thanks to you guys, too.

See you next weekend!

Alison