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01-Nov-13 |
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View
to the northwest (from the cockpit of GRV) with Judith
Smith and Neil Schaefer in view thermaling in CQC ... not a
lot of cloud today but there was lift in the blue.
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From: Robert
Hainsworth
Date:
Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 4:57 PM
Subject:
Friday Flying Report
To:
cgcmemlist@vicnet.net.au
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Unsurprisingly,
Kevin Rodda has now sent a copy of the flight sheet to
the Friday Flyers. As a ringleader in suggesting today
that, as he had the only copy taken of the flight
sheet, he should do the report, I will accept his
anticipated response and do the report myself (Friday
Flyers will understand what I am talking about.)
Fronting
up at the field about 7.30am on what looked likely to
be a beautiful day I found only Bob Turner, Arthur
Mailey and John Knox present, plus a dog that was
almost unrecognisable but turned out to be a freshly
shorn Pat. I have never seen a shorn Border Collie
before, and a very strange sight it was indeed, but he
himself seemed very happy to be relieved of his fur
coat in time for summer. John assured us that he was
used to this each year.
We
began disrobing the Blanik and the IS28, and were soon
joined by Charles Hoch, John Nestor, Ken MItchell and
Shane Tuck. While the gliders were being towed to 12
Shane and I put some air in the pie cart offside rear
tyre and set off after them, still managing to beat
them to the launch point.
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View
to the southeast to Deception Bay and the
Redcliffe Peninsula (from the cockpit of GRV) ... the
brown area at bottom right is the relatively new "sand-pit"
playground for trainee mining machinery
operators.
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After
a daily check for John Nestor in the Blanik, Charles
and I launched in the IS28 at 10.04, and found
excellent lift, hitting the 4500 foot ceiling a
couple of times, climbing under clouds and in the
blue. After an hour or so my companion began to mutter
about needing to offload some water ballast, so we
used air-brakes to assist us to return to terra firma,
with a flight time of 1 hour 13 minutes. Meanwhile
Tony Sorensen had turned up and had an annual check, I
believe returning to flying after an absence of over
12 months, please correct me if I am wrong about that
Tony. He obviously had not lost his touch because he
soon went up in the IS28 with Arthur Mailey for 58
minutes (Tony has subsequently acknowledged that it
was Arthur who actually did the flying). Next in the
IS28 were Neil Schaefer and Judith Smith for 1 hour
25, the longest flight of the day in a club aircraft.
Charles and I had another attempt to top this but only
managed 33 minutes, landing on 06 and putting her to
bed. 4 flights for the IS28 totalling 4 hours 09.
Meanwhile
the Blanik continued to fly with solo flights, a
couple each by Ken Mitchell, Shane Tuck, and John
Nestor, plus a flight with Bob Turner for a visiting
UK pilot, Graham Wadforth, out here on holiday. A
total of 9 flights totalling 2 hours 42.
Kevin
Rodda flew his Ka6 GRV for one flight of 2 hours 40,
and Bert Persson was up in his self launcher for an
unknown time, but certainly longer than anyone else
(apparently completing with ease a leisurely Friday
afternoon return trip to Kingaroy).
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ES-KA6
GRV looking in fine shape after her 50 Year Survey ...
back on deck at RWY06 after her excellent 2hrs 40mns
impersonation of a fun machine at YCAB today.
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Thanks
to Bob Turner and John Knox, and to Karl Bodi who
relieved John in the tug around midday, for making all
this possible.
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Bob
Hainsworth
for the FRIDAY CREW
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Webmaster's
Note: After copping some friendly banter re his SPA
radio calls and pronunciation of "Caaar-Bull-Cherrr",
Karl Bodi commented cheekily as he headed for home
that he does not have an accent ... he claimed it is
just that the microphone on the cheap radio headset
that he uses in SPA distorts his voice and he can't
afford to buy an expensive set!!!
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Photos
and captions courtesy of Kevin Rodda. |
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