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RV Formation School - January 2009

Our New Year meet on 3rd January saw our biggest gathering of students to date. It was a lovely sunny day, but a rather chilly start. We had 11 students and flew 26 sorties with 3 students attending their first formation training day. The 24th January meet came after a few weeks of wet weather which left many people with their RV's stuck on soggy, wet strips and unable to attend. It was another sunny day (can't last!) with 8 students and 2 new to formation flying. Here's a selection of photos from the two days.

There are some photos, taken by Doc, here . I also have some nice video of our 3-ship heading home with Si and Jim in the Warrior and James in G-CFET, which I'll deal with and upload.

3 ship coming back from training The finer points of formation instruction! John's first formation trip in his newly finished RV-6A And here again with Nicky in her RV-6 on her first formation trip too Nicky in her RV-6 formating on Iain in G-TOGO David and David walking back for lunch Formation circuits for David in G-RVAN and David in G-RVDG in the afternoon - here on short finals and after touch down Early formation students arriving back to North Weald and the 4-ship from the early January meet Henrick and Andy in G-XSEA Iain's one of our instructors and kindly flew his RV-6A in the formation for us         This was not posed at all! Happy Days!