The second posting on Sunday...

I am not just a pretty face! I have been practising the GPS and the LNav. There were a young glider pilot guy in the hanger checking his glider after a land out and he was so helpfull! All I needed was to get started, then I practise by myself. After a while Roger Wilson and Chris Palmer came in and we had a good session, about an hour. There were something we could not understand. When I had HUS on the GPS, the LNav had funny figure on it, 58.9km in GPS, but LNav showed 31.8. Anyway, we decided that I should be using the GPS for navigating and the LNav for distance and average climb. Roger has got a LNav but his is much more advanced that the one in the Astir. Now I am ready to start practising when I fly next time! Brilliant!!! Wow! Got somewhere today!

Only one glider flew today, VE which is the GrobIIAcro and only one flight. It was very windy and then it rained in the afternoon for a while. Chris Palmer ahd brought the Astir out and left it in the front of the hanger, which I brought in with Richard Chapman, when it started raining. Tomorrow should be better, so I will fly Astir and practise the GPS and LNav. I will set it to go to Bicester so it will show the home airfield all the time.

7.30pm.

Evening is beautiful, I spent the late afternoon and early evening in a bar, just drunk water. Lots of discussions there about the club. Then I went for a walk around the airfield, 35 minutes, rather warm and sunny.

8.45pm.

Looks like tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednesday would be good!

Mike, the field manager and another club member are watching football on a telly, Tony, the bar manager is chatting with the weekday winch driver in a bar and I am sitting on a sofa in the middle part of the long room and writing on the computer. There is nobody else here, there is a small gathering in a caravan park, BBQ.