Ian's last flying session and send off

Hello all
As most of you will know Ian Ashdown is moving away from the South East to the sunny skies of South West Wales.

This coming weekend will probably be his last flying session with us before he moves in early March.
Given Ian has been a very active member in the club over the last few years, I thought it would be an nice idea to give him a little send off this Saturday at 1.00pm at The Plough Pub in Plumpton Green .
The idea was to get a bunch of us together and go flying in the morning and then go off to the pub for a pint and a some food with plenty of fun and banter thrown in.
So far out of the 29 members of the club we have just 8 confirmed coming to see Ian off in the pub.

1. Ian A
2. Paul H
3. Rob S
4. Scotty
5. Tony C
6. Robin A
7. Jim H
8. Graham U

If any of our other members or friends would like to come and say good bye to Ian then please let me know ASAP as I need to send you a menu for you to choose your meal so I can give the pub numbers and meal choice.

I would like to wish Ian and Kath all the very best in their new adventure in Wales. Ian has helped a lot of our club members with his years of flying knowledge and Instruction. I will personally miss him as a flying and drinking buddy.

He will be taking his full sized glider (Slingsby Kestrel 20) down to Talgarth (Black Mountains Gliding Club) for some brilliant flying in the Brecon Beacons.

Wednesday UPDATE: Looking at the forecast for Saturday it looks like it will be a SE wind which is about the worst wind direction we ever have. I'm not sure if we actually get out flying as the flying sites are limited. There is a chance we might end up on the Ashdown Forest with our DLGs as most of the people who have said they will be there for lunch have DLG's and the others who don't then you are welcome to come along and have a go.