Kemble Flying Club

We are still here flying! Weather not brilliant! Nice flight with Rian Talbot past the white horse near Calne then Silbury Hill and Avebury. Dy

Many congratulations to Andy Verrent from Swindon who has just made his first solo flight in the C42 only eight months since he started flying training at Kemble Flying Club. An avid viewer of Ben Atkinson’s You-tube training videos Andy says these helped him enormously to achieve this life time ambition. And, not too much more to do now to get the next ambition – a pilot’s licence. @benlearningtofly

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Pilots almost take this for granted! Tatiana had never flown before ever and she was momentarily speechless! See post below.

Well done David!

Solo date! The First 1st solo ever in G-GRLS was achieved on Tuesday by William Cave after just 12 hours flying instruction! Very well done Will! Will has dabled with gliding since he was 16 so that helped him make this solo date. Our rather well known aircraft, built by girls at Benadean School in Kent, has been at Kemble for nearly three months now and covered over 100 hours instructional flying already. Will,30, of Wotton-under-Edge is quite at home with aircraft as for the MOD he looks after engineering and certification of our fast jet aircraft fleet! Dy

Mary-Jean Foxwell, 14, guides TeamEurostar FZ through a lovely turn at 3,000ft today. Her flight was thanks to Dad, Jim, who outbid all at a charity auction for People in Poverty. Jim has already raised over £4k for the charity and departs shortly for Romania to assist with a build a barn project. With him will be Kemble Flying Club Member, David Hutchinson who sponsored the flight today. Many thanks David!

Its amazing what you see when out and about for a flight! Bill Brooks, P & M Aviation Chief Designer and Test pilot spotted at Clench common about to fly home on his bicycle!!! Dy

“Wow i’m at 4,000ft! At the tender age of 55 Chris Dayus took to the air for the first time in his life today in Kemble Flying Club’s teamEurostar - and he loved it! Many thanks to his three daughters for a fantastic birthday present!

G-GRLS has new luxurey seats and that means even 6ft 6” Joe West can fly her! Joe, an Aeronautical Engineering University student says he really likes the Skyranger and prefers it to rhe C42 which is a theme coming through from Club Members. Joe pictured below with CFI dy - acting the fool!

First girl to fly G-GRLS at Kemble Flying Club was Riya Deshmukh who is one of ten students currently taking part in the Cotswold Airport Aviation Scholarship.

1st Solo after nearly 60 years! On Friday something very special happened at Kemble Flying Club. A boy who had dreamed of flying an aircraft solo from the age of nine finally achieved that ambition - just 59 years on! Very many congratulations to Nigel Shires pictured right holding his ‘first solo’ slip from Kemble Air Traffic and with flying instructor Mark Hayter.