Chair’s Thursday Blog

08 Nov 2018

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Hi everyone,  this is the regular Thursday posting to let you know what is coming up in the near future

This week

Another Junior falls in love with LUV

Congratulations to Holly Rennell who has converted to the K23, her smile was larger than the wingspan!

Matthew Cooke

Yet another celebration, Matthew has achieved his assistant instructor rating and is just waiting on his acceptance checks to complete his rating.

Frequency changes

Please read the CAA publication below, it applies to all of us.

http://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/33/CAP%201606%20833kHz%20voice%20channel%20spacing%20in%20the%20UK%20(v3).pdf

Your team this weekend is:

Saturday:  Neal Clements, Walter Baumann, Guy Hartland, Dave d’Arcy

Sunday:  Guy Hartland, Peter Orchard.

Forthcoming events

Next marketing event 5th December

These events are great ways for us to introduce our neighbours and gain new members.  The next one is at Moor Park Christmas Fayre near Ludlow which is 2-5pm on wed 5th Dec we have a small table inside for leaflets and chat and selling gift vouchers etc, plus glider outside to draw interest. We will leave Mynd around 11:30am

Winter Lectures

November 17. Mike Groves Skylaunch 18:00 start.

For those of you who attended last years lecture you will be delighted to know that part 2 is being delivered this year.  For those of you who did not attend you really missed a fantastic talk.  Mike gives us a superb understanding of the life of winching all over the world including the movie world.  Don’t miss it.

The other lectures are now on the web calendar I suggest you bookmark the link below

https://www.midlandgliding.club/all-events/

we are trying to make this the master calendar for out future events in order to give a longer term view of what we are planning.

Christmas meal and awards evening

Please put the 15th of December in your diary.  You should have had an email from Fay asking you to choose and book.  There is a limit on the numbers so I encourage you to book quickly before all the turkey goes.

chairman@midlandgliding.club

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