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Clench Common Aero Club and GS Aviation NEWS and Events

29 December 2008
Out and about, Alistair and Julian Leak in the GT450, and Dave Slater and Nigel Leak in the Thruster braved the cold to visit a very quiet Brimpton.

19 December 2008
Congratulations, Simon Dow, 2nd cross country qualifier flight, to Wing Farm, in the C42.
Out and about, Alistair and Nigel Leak in the GT450, and Dave Slater and Brian Cooper in the Thruster braved the cold and wind to visit a very damp Redlands.

15 December 2008
Brian Cooper, aged 73 years young, has just completed a 5 day intensive course on the C42 and he's coming back for more next week!

13 December 2008
Grand opening of the new clubhouse. Despite early flooding on the road from Marlborough many members both new and old turned up and a great time was had by all. Well done to Sue and Alex for the food. See Gallery 4

10 December 2008
Congratulations, David Leighton passed his GST on the C42 for his restricted licence.
Out and about Dave Slater and Nigel Leak turned on the heater in the C42 and flew to Goodwood (Chichester) and back.

6 December 2008
Congratulations, Phil Gregory passed his GST at Clench in his Q.

5 December 2008
Congratulations, Simon Dow passed his GST at Clench in the C42.

3 December 2008
Congratulations, Jamie Pratt first solo in the C42.

1 December 2008
Finishing touches being made to new club house, grand opening party to be announced soon.

29/30 November 2008
SPLASH show at NEC. New enclosed cockpit Gyrocopter from RotorSport on show. Graham and Nigel both had an ogle. How can we get one next year?

19 November 2008
Congratulations, Simon Payne, 1st cross country qualifier flight, to Popham, in the C42.

3 November 2008
Graham back from France where Craig Gorvett achieved his full NPPL on the Quantum over the last couple of weeks.

25 October 2008
Congratulations, Barbara Shaw, first solo in the C42 at Clench Common.
Congratulations, Simon Dow, first solo cross country in the C42.

19 October 2008
Out and about Brian Goldsmith braved the cold to fly his Quantum to Brimpton, and back.

18 October 2008
The new club house at Clench is nearly done. Dave Slater has been hard at it.

17 October 2008
Congratulations, Michael Clutterbuck first solo in his Flash 11 Alpha at Clench Common.
Congratulations, Phil Gregory second solo cross country to Wing Farm in his Q.

16 October 2008
Congratulations, Nigel Leak passed his GST in the C42 to add an (M) to his NPPL at Clench Common.

15 October 2008
Out and about Graham Slater took the Gyrocopter to Chilbolton and Old Sarum with Nigel Leak.

14 October 2008
Congratulations, Martin Chalk passed his GST in his Mistral at Clench Common.

9 October 2008
Phil Gregory first solo cross country qualifier to Popham in his Pegasus Q G-MVPX.
Martin Chalk second solo cross country qualifier to Wing Farm in his Mistral.
First flight in the Gyrocopter for Dave Slater.

2 October 2008
Clench Common new club house "The Shed" coming on well.

2 October 2008
Pat Noons getting ready for GST and restricted licence in France on the X-Air Microlight.

28 September 2008
Congratulations, Julie Fitxgerald GST in France on the Technam P92 Microlight.

17 September 2008
Congratulations, Jim Morris passed his GST in his Challenger at Clench Common.

3 September 2008
Dave Slater and Nigel Leak in the C42 and Alistair Leak and Guy Lynch in the GT450 fly back across the Channel to Clench after being stuck in Abberville for 2 nights.

31 August 2008
St Secondin BBQ. Despite torrential rain and strong winds the night before a good group of intrepid aviators arrived for the annual BBQ.

30 August 2008
Congratulations, Pauline Willcox GST in France on the X-Air Microlight.

29 August 2008
Congratulations, Phil Willcox GST in France on the Technam P92 Microlight.

28 August 2008
Dave Slater and Guy Lynch in the C42 and Alistair Leak and Nigel Leak in the GT450 fly out of Clench for the St Secondin BBQ.

27 August 2008
Congratulations, Jason Urrita first solo in France on a Pegasus Q flexwing.

25 August 2008
Congratulations, Pietro Cicconetti GST in France on the X-Air Microlight.

24 August 2008
Congratulations, Julie Fitzgerald first solo in France on the Technam P92 Microlight.

24 August 2008
Congratulations, Pauline Willcox first solo in France on the X-Air Microlight.

8 August 2008
Congratulations to Gary Stewart first solo on GT450 G-CERN
Congratulations to Guy Lynch first solo on the Thruster
Also Nigel Leak on conversion to and first microlight solo in the C42 G-CFBE
And a big thanks to Dave Cox and Chris Trow for so much flying/training done in half a day.
Clubhouse update: Lee assisted by Harry have started the glazing, Dave Slater has finished the roof.

7 August 2008
Graham off to St Secondin our French airfield for some intensive courses for which he filled the van with a Jabaru engine, a washing machine and a concrete mixer!!!!

4 August 2008
All of a sudden the new clubhouse is taking shape. Last week the walls went up. To-day a motley team managed all the roof structure. Well done lads: Putting the roof up Alistair, Chris, Dave, Graham, Harry, Lee and Nigel.

At Popham 2/3rd August
Despite low cloud, rain, drizzle etc on both days. Met lots of old friends (plus some new ones) including Kay Bradford, Phil Gregory, John Lane, Brian, Graham plus loads who I have forgotten their names. On the stand Sue and Dave Slater (plus Graham), Chris Trow, Harry and Nigel. The Gyrocopter attracted loads of interest partly because of how little the ones that were flying were effected by the strong winds and turbulence that were throwing around the other aircraft in the circuit.
Meanwhile back at Clench Dave Cox did a splendid job of holding the fort.

27 July 2008
Congratulations to Graham Slater on passing his GST on the Giro copter G-CFGY

26 July 2008
Congratulations to Julian Reynolds, first solo, and in our new C42 G-CFBE.
Congratulations to Brian Goldsmith on at long last finishing his unrestricted NPPL with a return flight to Wing Farm in his Quantum G-CBNT.

23 July 2008
New C42 arrives. Welcome G-CFBE

22 July 2008
Congratulations to Phil Gregory, solo in his own aircraft G-MVPX

16 July 2008
Congratulations to Ron Griffin passed his GST on our trusty Thruster T600N, Ron completed his full licence in 29 hours as he had a background of Light Aircraft flying and a commercial balloon licence. The weather in July has not been very conducive to flying in general, but we have been battling through with all our students making progress.

2 July 2008
Congratulations, first solo for Martin Chalk in his Mistral at Clench.

30 June 2008
Graham back from St Secondin after another successful course in France.
Congratulations to Stephen Perkins completed his GST in the Tecnam P92.
Congratulations to David Leighton (a young man of 77) regained his solo.

28 June 2008
The GT450 attracted a lot of attention at the Hungerford Rotary Club Family Fun Day. Many people commented that they had never seen a microlight up close before and at least two people expressed a strong interest in learning to fly.

23 June 2008
Congratulations to Simon Payne first solo in C42 at Clench Common.

10 June 2008
Congratulations to Phil Ellis, (Matt's father) went solo in the C42, and is now logging his solo hours towards his licence.

30 May 2008
Congratulations to Lee Bligh GST on C42 at Clench Common.
Congratulations to Simon Dow first solo on C42 at Clench Common.
Congratulations to Graham Slater first Gyrocopter solo on his MT-03 at Clench Common.

27 May 2008
Congratulations to Jim Morris first solo in his Challenger

22 May 2008
Congratulations to Tony Parker GST on C42 at Clench Common.

21 May 2008
Congratulations to Rob Shaw first solo on C42 at Clench Common.

18 May 2008
Congratulations to Matt Ellis first solo on C42 at Clench Common.

10 May 2008
Congratulations to Ron Griffin first solo on Thruster at Clench Common.

10 May 2008
Congratulations to Pat Berry he passed his GST in France on the Tecnam P92 Microlight.

9 May 2008
Congratulations to Denis Myers who has just completed the full NPPL(M) syllabus and passed his GST at our school in France in just over 2 weeks! A lot of hard work and effort on his part - a commendable effort.

22 April 2008
Congratulations! Lee Bligh, first solo on C42 at Clench Common.

15 April 2008
G-CFGY MT-03 Gyrocopter arrives at Clench

27 March 2008
Congratulations! Phil Gregory first solo on the GT450.

March 2008 - Clench Common welcomes the following new students:
Phil Gregory flying the GT450.
Paul Young learning on the GT450.
Martin Chalk learning to fly his Mistral.
Father and son Phil and Matt Ellis learning to fly the C42.
Lee Bligh learning on the C42.
Rob Shaw learning on the C42.
Ron Griffin X-Air owner, starting on the Thruster.
Mike Clutterbuck learning on his Flash 11 Alpha.

March 2008
Jim Morris completes 12 hr 20 minutes dual flying C42 and 3 exams on 5 day intensive course in March.
Congratulations! Mark Savage passed his GST for unrestricted NPPL on 5th in the Thruster.
Mark Savage passed GST completed full licence on Thruster in March.

February 2008
Congratulations! Ken Clark passed his GST (restricted) on 17th in the C42.
Graham Jeffries passed GST completed restricted on Thruster in February. Ivan Prachar at 74 years old completes solo flight in the Thruster in February, its never too late to learn!!
Tony Parker first solo in C42 February.

9/10 February 2008
Saturday 9 Feb G-CERN with Alistair and Julian Leak left Clench with filled paniers for the annual Icicle Meet at Sywell, near Northampton. At Sywell they joined 12 other hardy aviators and camped by their aircraft over a frosty night and then returned to Clench on Sunday. One of the advantages of the GT450 is that it can be used for touring and advanced training as it can carry a full fuel load, paniers and two adults and still be within its max all up weight.

January 2008
John 'Budge' Wilcox passed GST and completed restricted licence on the Thruster in January.

2007

Christmas 2007 and New Year 2008
Clench Common will be closed for training 25/26 December and 1st January. However it is anticipated that quite a few hardy and very well wrapped up aviators will be escaping form home to get into the skies during that week.

Late Nov 2007
Flashers to be seen at Clench! Both Brian (Quantum 912) and Nigel (the Clench GT450) left the SPLASH show with new strobe light kits. These once fitted (and the mod signed off) will help to improve the conspicuity of the aircraft in flight.

24/25 Nov 2007
GS Aviation had a stand at SPLASH, the Sports and Leisure Aviation Show at the NEC. We welcomed back many old friends and had numerous enquiries for flying flex and fixed wing both in the UK and in France and Spain.

21/22 Nov 2007
Graham in Italy with some prospective customers for the Rotax powered Tecnam twin. Graham was very impressed by the low noise level and short field performance. Yes it could operate out of Clench Common.

12 Nov 2007
Congratulations! Graham Jeffries passed his GST for restricted NPPL at Clench in the Thruster.

4 Nov 2007
Congratulations! Julian Leak completed his cross countries for the unrestricted NPPL at Clench in the GT450.

3 Nov 2007
Congratulations! Alistair Leak completed his cross countries for the unrestricted NPPL at Clench in the GT450.

2 Nov 2007
Congratulations! Simon Kyle passed his GST at Clench in his Pegasus Q G-MTPS

28 Oct 2007
The new roof is now on the Clubhouse at St Secondin.

8 Oct 2007
Congratulations! Julian Leak passed his GST for restricted NPPL at Clench in the GT450.

6 Oct 2007
Congratulations! Alistair Leak passed his GST for restricted NPPL at Clench in the GT450.

1 Oct 2007
Graham back from St Secondin after nearly a month of flyable days, unlike UK! New clubhouse floor completed and next stage the roof is going on.

21 Sep 2007
Congratulations! David Beveridge passed his GST in France at St Secondin today after a 2-3 week intensive course.

News 13 Sep 2007

Clench Common flexwing student, Phil Gaze, is this month’s student of the month in Loop magazine.
Copies of which can be obtained, free, from www.loop.aero

News 2 Sep 2007
Congratulations! Julie Brittan's 'first solo' at St Secondin, France on Sunday 2 September in the 912 Quantum.

September 2nd 2007 - Julie Brittan's 'first solo' at St Secondin, France	September 2nd 2007 - Julie Brittan's 'first solo' at St Secondin, France

1 Sep 2007
Congratulations! GST for Colin Bruce, in France at St Secondin in the X-Air.

For your Diary Sat 1st September 2007
GS Aviation BBQ at St Secondin Airfield (our French operation). Why not fly down after visiting the Blois Microlight Show. St Secondin is situated just south of Poitiers N46 19.9 E 000 30.9 500ft AMSL, 2 runways 10/19 500m, 09/27 680m, pre booking required.

27 Aug 2007
Congratulations! Hugh Clark on passing your GST on the Thruster.

19 Aug 2007
The new IKARUS C42 G-CEPY has now received its Permit to Fly and has started flight training.

13 Aug 2007
The GT450 flexwing is now operational.

28 July 2007
Brand new Pegasus GT450 flexwing delivered to Clench Common to join the training fleet. Graham managed to get the initial test flight done and we are now awaiting CAA permit to fly which will probably take about 10 days. We are hoping G-CERN will be operational from 13 August.

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