Another great writeup on the Pocklington Two Seater Comp (www.sailplaneandgliding.co.uk)
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Club Maintenance Weekend
Wolds Gliding Club is run by volunteers - which means everyone mucks in with jobs around the airfield. This last weekend we suspended flying and spent the whole weekend doing all those jobs that have mounted up over the last year (or ten) - including:
Filled potholes and smoothed parts of the runway
Cleared the glider hangar (and hoovered it!!!)
Cleared out the sliding door tracks
Cleared the tug hangar
Regravelled the road into the club caravan site
Regravelled the peri-track where it flooded
Emptied the loft
Cleaned the control bus
Reorganised the ballast weights and various other equipment on the control bus
Washed and polished the 2 seat gliders (4 of them)
Washed and serviced the trailers (4 of them)
Done an ARC on one K21
Done several other jobs on the same K21
Cleared out a load of old computer equipment
Litter picked around the site perimeter
Cleaned the winch
Removed a load of ivy from some walls
Cleared a load of brashwood from around the campsite
Cleared the main entrance way which has got a bit muddy
As you can see, this is the first time many of our members have ever seen a vacuum cleaner :-)
Congratulations to Phoebe who passed her Airbus A320 skills test
Seems like only yesterday when she first flew a glider solo (it was actually 7 years ago!)
John had his 10,000th flight
John Norman, our ex-CFI (Chief Flying Instructor) took his 10,000th flight today!
Yorkshire Air Ambulance Donation
Alan Rands and Mike Jordy presented a cheque to Yorkshire Air Ambulance for over £3500. This was money raised throughout the year by Wolds Gliding Club.
Two Seat Comp (Sailplane and Gliding Apr24)
Great writeup on the Pocklington Two Seater Comp in Sailplane & Gliding Magazine (www.sailplaneandgliding.co.uk)
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Open Day 2023
We had our first open day since COVID on Saturday 24th June. It was a huge success - with over 120 flights in a single day (even Manchester Airport only manages 587 flights per day!) It was a huge team effort with help from over 70 members and their family.
Looking forward to next year…
Rohan goes solo on 14th Birthday
Congratulations to Rohan who went solo on his 14th Birthday - a fantastic achievement.
Queen Elizabeth II
The club will be closed on Monday 19th September as a mark of respect.
Wolds Gliding Club Wins Prestigious Safety Award
Wolds Gliding Club has been recognised by the BGA for
“creating and energetically maintaining an exemplary safety culture”
…with a prestigious award at the recent BGA conference. The Saundby Sword Safety Award 2022 was received on behalf of the Club by Alan Rands from BGA Chairman Andy Perkins. The valuable sword itself has to remain at the BGA but the Club has received a fine engraved glass trophy for permanent display at Pocklington.
The Saundby Sword was donated to the BGA to be used as a safety award by the late Dr Peter Saundby and is the ceremonial sword issued to his father, Air Marshal Sir Robert Saundby. During his time as an RAF flying instructor his father had actively promoted improvements to flight safety.
A glider pilot as well as a senior RAF medical officer Peter Saundby was for many years a medical advisor to the BGA and for other air sports and was himself recognised as always having been a great advocate for better safety.