Friday and the end of the course is nigh. Following the usual recap of yesterday's flights, (this bit is great as we always get a chance to learn from someone elses good decisions or mistakes). We settled to a brief from Adrian Cable on wave and ridge flying. Excellent stuff , as have been all the other briefs with some great tips. A great tip on getting caught in cloud, hopefully reasonably well trimmed. Just open the airbrakes fully and let the rest of the controls go. Down she will come pretty much stable.
Today's task is a shortish triangle and as the sky had been looking good and I was with John Baylis in the Duo Discus, I was looking to long flight with plenty to learn. John gave me a great rundown on the Duo as well as a look at his landout kit and a neat tip on drink bottle stowage, a thin rope round the neck and tied to the straps at the right length to have it sit in the foot well but not inot the rudder pedals.
We launched earlyish, hunted around for something, anything and landed back after 15 minutes. relaunched and managed a further 30 minutes, hit the start and first turn circle but the way South looked as bad as to the North and we called it a day.
We all got back, no one had a great flight. Time to pack up and go home from a very good course. It achieved all of my goals, I comfortably went out of gliding range from the field, did my first landout, got better at reading the sky and did some great flights. A very worthwhile course.
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