Today's Flying - Saturday 19th Sept

Hi All,
Paul and I arrived at the Beacon at 08:45 this morning to see a lot of low cloud and not much lift. However we walked along the ridge to the East for a while and the wind seemed OK, so I launched the Zagi and Paul launched the Valenta Dragon.... both went fine, but the lift was marginal.
After a short while Jim Horn arrived with his Spectre and an older model (can't remember the name) with 2 channel control and dihederal. We chucked that one off the hill and it flew really well with Paul helping Jim to keep control and to work out left from right (come on Jim - there's only 2 options towards Lewes or towards Brighton )
Anyway, Jim had a long, long flight and really enjoyed himself with a lot of tutorial help from Paul.
Then we launched the Spectre which used to belong to Will  and after I had trimmed it Jim took over and had another long flight.
Paul brought the Dragon (as I said) and gave me the controls for a long flight which I loved very much, it's the smoothest model I ever flew - quick but very controllable - thanks Paul.

Later Roger turned up with the faithful old Stargazer and Cularis.
The Stargazer has seen better days and Roger has made some repairs since I last saw it, but it still flies very, very well and Roger was smiling which is what this is all about !
The Cularis wouldn't come to life, so Roger had a long flight or two with the Zagi (which as a model is OK , but horrible in a way cos it's prone to stalling when it fells like it).

Paul also had his Zulu which we all had a go of - including Jim who I think found it relatively easy and very manoeuvrable.

I think Paul deserves a gold star for helping Jim today and Jim gets a gold star for his improvement over last time he came with us.

All-in-all a great morning (3 hours) for us all.

No pictures or video - sorry folks.

Rob