Rainy day

A lot of minor achievements today. U-tube manometer testing, to make sure that the ASI is actually functioning correctly.

I suspected that the ASI wasn't reading right as I am able to thermal slower than in any other glider i have flown, including the Cirrus! We concluded that it was actually indicating accurately but because the pitot is located on the vertical stabiliser rather than at the front, at very slow speed the stall buffet will affect the reading. However it still means that I am able to thermal very very slow.

We have also shifted all of our gear from the motel and into the hangar accomadation we have for the rest of our stay. It is a fully insulated and very expensive looking 3 year old hangar arrangement. It has a large main hangar section taking up the front half and the second half is separated into 4 hangar blocks all privately owned. Both endS of each of these blocks have lift-away doors that expose the whole side of the hangar up to the roof but these also have windows so there is a darkness issue for the non-existent night-time. Both of us being engineers, we came up with the solution of indoor tents keeping the area bright for the day but dark for the night. After 363,822,738.25 revised editions, we developed a very space efficent, sleek, elegant but most of all dark tent. With a light weight timber frame, gaffer tape joinings and twine we should probably go into production and actually sell them...