It was a long weekend which ended with a complicated Monday.

On Saturday I flew into Palmers Farm for a Bristell Fly In organised by Tony Palmer one of the owners of Bristell UK. It wasn’t planned but luckily Chris Knight who owns G-CILL had some free time so asked if I’d like to go with him.

Sunday was a tugging duty in tricky ESE winds which was quite demanding and takes a lot of concentration.

And on Monday I was supposed to fly some family in my other Aircraft which is a Grob 109b, Unfortunately it went ‘Tech’ and despite speaking to the aircraft maintainer to try fo fix it it was quite obvious by 1300 that it needed major surgery. I managed to fly everyone but had to use one of London Gliding Clubs DR400s instead. This proved a better option in the end as there were 12 people to fly.

Tuesday was a ‘rest day’ but I decided to use it to complete some of the paperwork that needs to be done including the Weight & Balance calculations which I’m pleased to say worked out ok. All of these forms need a sign-off so will have to be done when Ian returns.