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From:
Kevin Roden
Date: Wed, Sep 28, 2011
Subject: Sunday Flying 25/09/11
To: CGClist
Sunday
was CAC fun flying day.
Mike
McCluskey, Kevin Rodda and myself represented the gliding club
amongst all the powered entrants. Simon
Descovich flew rear seat with me and flew one circuit to the
spot landing. Mike took the representative from Angel
Flight with him, helping to share the gliding experience. We
all attempted three of the four tasks set.
Spot Landing:It would seem
we all hit the spot, or were very close, in our two attempts
each at the spot landing, which was far better than some of
the other aircraft attempts I witnessed.
Timed
Circuit: Pilots had to nominate a time, to the second, to
fly from take off to touch down. I believe I was the only
serious attempt at this and came surprisingly close to the
7min 28sec nominated time from a 1200' launch.
The other
task was a "navigation" exercise, asking questions
of observation. Obviously we fell short here even though an
answer was given for each of the questions.
We
all had fun doing something a little different, bringing out
some competitiveness in us all.
Watch this
space, a glider only 'comp' might be organised to add a little
variety to our operations one weekend.
Photo
1: Kevin Rodda landing
his Schweizer 1-35 just
overflew the mark, which can
be seen just in front of the
gliders nose ... touching
down on the edge of the 20m
long 'box'.
Photo
2:
Steve
Bowtell
expressing
his disappointment at
Kevin
Rodda
missing
the
spot!
His
main
wheel
actually
brought
up a
cloud
of
chalk
dust
from
the
line
defining
the
"box"
...
apparently
any
part
of
the
line
is
out! .
Kevin
Roden
Comment
taken from Simon Descovich's report re Sunday:
"Spot landings - Both Kevin's nailed that, but unfortunately the umpires saw WUC's
hover above grass at a 3 inch height to be a touch-down and he got no points
... or whatever the prize wasn't"
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Videos
and comments by Simon Descovich ...
CQC's attempt at the combined timed circuit and spot landing.
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The
CQC team (Kevin Roden and Simon Descovich) double-checking that shed count.
[video
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CQC
sharing a thermal with "the pocket rocket" WUC
(Kevin
Rodda) as he circles and counts cars.
[video
best viewed in full screen using the button]
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