One of our junior gliding members, Marco Vourla Nunez, went solo today in one of the club’s K13 training gliders. 15-year-old Marco only joined the Vale of White Horse Gliding Centre in February of this year, but had demonstrated he was ready to make his first solo flight today. After a well-executed ground run behind the tug plane, and an aerotow to 2000 feet, he executed some high-air manoeuvres, then a nice circuit and landing back at the airfield.

With several active club members still enjoying their spring gliding trip to Sisteron in the South of France, the club was quieter than usual this weekend, but we still managed some nice soaring flights of between 1 and 3 hours in the gentle lift available, climbing to around 3500 feet above the airfield by mid-afternoon.

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