I've just had a week of fairly hard work. We had 12 students to come and fly for the whole week; with decent weather we would have been able to fly around 50 sorties, so giving each at least 4 sorties. But of course the weather was poor, starting off with fog most mornings and clearing more slowly each day. On the last day it didn't really clear and we flew in hazy conditions all day, managing to get above it for basic instruction, but then having trouble getting back down without using ATC's DF. So, those chaps trying to fly Climbing and Descending or Circuits had a pretty boring week as far as flying goes.

For most of the basic sorties we had some time to teach and practise aerobatics:

A loop on a beautiful day, earlier in the year.



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