Morden's Flying Club has wrapped up their successful Fly Day Fridays for the season, a gathering place for pilots and aviation enthusiasts.

Pilots from around the region and across Canada come to Morden's Regional Airport Terminal to enjoy BBQ and conversation.

Fly Days has been around for 17 years with an average of 30 attendees every Friday, with this season's largest gathering of 70 people.

Invited by her friend Natalie Giesbrecht, Ella Klaue from B.C. visited the last Fly Day, completing her first cross-country flight.

Klaue said she had been to Fly Day before as a passenger, now as a pilot keeping track of the radio, navigation, and altitude was a big change.

Klaue wasn't always an avid pilot after high-school, Klaue wasn't sure what she wanted to do so she attended a youth summit at Prairie Bible College in Three Hills, Alberta.

"There was an option to sign up for aviation and I didn't even know what the term meant. My friend who was helping me she told me to go and sign up saying I might fly. They had just one more spot for me, that’s the first time I ever went up and I fell in love with it."
 
Many people may be curious about the options available for local pilots. Morden Flying Club member Marvin Dueck says local pilots could work commercially in the city, as crop-dusters, or like many of the club members, recreationally.

Fly Day Fridays will begin again in May, continuing until the end of August. Anyone is welcome and visitors could have the chance to catch a ride over Morden.

Ella Klaue attended flying school in Langly, British Columbia