Sunday 2nd Oct Devils Dyke

Hi All,
After deliberating over where to fly given the changing wind forecasts, we decided to go to the Dyke early this morning. We pretty much all arrived at the same time - 08:30.
There was Paul, Ian A, Jim, Rob, Andrew and Graham U. Paul had also picked up our old friend Will Attfield on his way to the hill.
The wind was stronger than I expected but certainly enough for us all to fly our models, however we were in the midst of an invasion of hang-gliders and para-gliders, who luckily stayed within their agreed area so they didn't affect us much.
Without going into too much detail about who brought which model, here's what I can remember from the morning's flying -
Paul brought his Ninja so that Will could have a go at refreshing his flying skills after a year off, which he did with remarkable skill, he also had a flight of Ian's mouldie (don't know which one) and that too looked very skilful - well done Will, it's like you never left !
Andrew brought his Brio so that he could do the final setting up which he accomplished with a lot of help and advice from Graham U, who was invaluable. After it was deemed RTF, Paul took it up and had a couple of flights during which some other minor setup issues were ironed-out. Very brave of Paul but after all he IS our leader !
I brought the Fusion 60 which I had recovered from the cliffs at Newhaven and that flew brilliantly - Andrew also had quite a long session with it, preferring to fly foam rather than mouldie on this occasion.
Ian A had a 'new' M60 from Tim H and that was doing brilliantly , he then moved on to his mouldie (not sure which one), which he let Will fly for a while - that was both kind and brave !! Ian flew with his usual skill and made perfect landings as ever.
Graham U had 2 of his mouldies - the Proxima 2 and another - both flew very well as Graham is an accomplished mouldie flier and spends a lot of time flying and practicing with these models - it certainly shows - practice makes perfect.
Jim had brought a Wildthing 60 which he bought to replace the lost Spectre. After Ian trimmed it for him, Jim was left to practice flying and landing. I gave Jim some ideas about his landings and by the end he made a brilliant controlled landing, rather than tending to land too far behind the hill -  I hope Jim didn't mind my interfering.

We were also joined by a number of other local fliers including Rob Creasey who I have met a number of times on various hills - he was flying a Blade today. Rob is one of our area Chief Examiners.

Altogether we all had a great time and as usual when we left, Graham U was still in the air - I hope it all went well for him ?

Regards
Rob