Monday 11th November Club Night Meeting – SeaView Inn – 7:30pm
This was yet another excellent evening with Richard Meek presenting a well put together collection of slides and videos covering his flying exploits over the 2024 season.
Richard covered a very detailed preparation process which involved checking weather forecasts, national forecasts, finding the best site for the day (where-ever that was in the whole UK) and the potential routes and goal setting. Everyone was impressed by the level of panning Richard puts into this, even down to using Google Earth for the picking of potential landing fields close to his chosen goal. Indeed Richard even looks for railway stations nearby and the time tables for trains taking him back to this TO location. The only thing Richard, didn’t seem to do was pre-book his train ticket prior to the day!
Richard also showed some excellent videos of his epic flights and competition tasks, but also showed his human side of when things didn’t quite go to plan, such as the epic recovery of his wing when caught up in a significantly large tree!
I think all members present would agree this was an excellent informative and entertaining evening. Richard has presented at Club nights previously, and hopefully will present at future meetings to come. Certainly not one to miss!
