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Happy New Year to you all.

Sat 2nd Jan 2010 saw plenty of flying with winch aerotows and a few brave full cats flying the motor floater.
Quiz of the year , What do you call two full cats in a motor Falke ??? answers on a post card please.
A big congratulations goes to Dave Tudor, our first solo in 2010, he also managed to break the cable on his first solo winch launch, not only did he break it but managed to lay a 1000 ft of rope over fields telephone cables and trees, is that two slabs of beer??? A good sign for the stats for the new year, the queue for our two K18’s is growing ever longer.
The spot landing and flour arranging competition did not happen due to bad weather.
See you all next weekend.

Nick L



Publish Date : 01/03/2010 13:55:00   Source : Nick L

Saturday was a cross ops day with overcast skies most of the day. We had a sudden flurry of excitement when Geoff, with new student Dominic, suddenly realised he hadn’t bought any flowers for his wife and using desperate measures tried to cut some roses fresh from David Austin’s with a cable break. No Poles were hurt in the incident, when the wire cable snapped at the winch and fell over the garden centre landing with a thump on the roof of a caravan, alarming the migrant workers but after Nick re-assured them that we wouldn’t be reporting them to immigration for not wearing hard hats they agreed to keep it to themselves.



Plenty of flying was done by everyone, but it was mainly circuits with a decent amount of aerotows giving us a good income. A good day for all concerned with many people concerned that Nige Lassiter would be unable to fly solo due to needing to re-new his medical now that he’s reached a ‘special’ age. We always knew he was ‘special’ but we all thought that particular birthday was in the dim distant past!!! Speaking of age, ‘Grandma Karen’ would just like to point out to everyone that whilst she thanks them for their good wishes they will get a swift knee in the groin if the ‘banter’ continues much longer… J





Publish Date : 16/02/2010 20:47:00   Source : Karen T

Please all note the club mobile no has changed. New no 07918757483

Publish Date : 06/02/2010 22:15:00   Source : Nick L

Last flying day of Jan saw a brave concerted effort of our club instructors risking life and limb to send Linsay solo. So congratulations to Linsay who made a successful flight but unfortunately for us we have also got to say good bye to Linsay as she moves to Marham. We all wish her luck in her new job. A good days flying was had by all, Goeff must be getting used to his Ventus Turbo as he remebered to turn the fuel on and start the turbo on 1st attempt. Next weekend we will have another busy day with 12 BI flights. See you all next weekend.

Publish Date : 30/01/2010 18:14:00   Source : Nick L

Another good days flying was had by all with more high aerotows and the Motor Falke seeing some action. 1st question of the year what do you call two full cats in a motor floater. Answers on a post card please. A big congratulations to Dave Tudor on going solo. He also had his first cable break on his 1st solo, impressively laying 1000ft of rope over trees gardens and telephone cables, double beers all round. Duty auth called a halt to aviation due to a few minor snow storms. The competition for the two club 18's is going to be fierce this summer.
Happy New Year to you all and happy landings.

Publish Date : 02/01/2010 21:36:00   Source : Nick L