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Sunday at YCAB

02-Jun-13

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From: Peter Stephenson
Date: Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 7:49 AM
Subject: Sunday at YCAB
To: cgcmemlist@vicnet.net.au


On Sunday, we had three booked AEF's. The first two came together and brought eight (8) additional people!

The third brought ten (10) and one of those also decided to take an AEF (he had soloed in England when he was a teenager)!

:-) 

With any luck, he may join the club.  

All this with ops on RWY30 meant frequent ferry trips for the "full" complement of  ground crew.

Duty Instructor: Peter  Stephenson        

Instructor: Mick Moloney     

Air Experience Instructor: Kevin Rodda     

Tug Pilot: Steve Bowtell          

Duty Pilots: Alex Horvath / Mark Yabsley

It was a good day, with Alex and I doing some rock picking at the working bee on the RWY24 extension at the Aero Club working bee. Peter John was the sole person representing the Gliding Club till we joined him for a brief period.

Operations were cut short with a line of storms approaching in the afternoon and we managed to pack up just in time before the weather arrived.

:-)


Longest flight of the day was Speedy of course in his Ka6 for over an hour.

 

Peter Stepenson

 
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 At the flight line on Runway 30 ready and waiting for the first AEF passengers  ... the Barina is back in action thanks to a long day of work yesterday by Karl Bodi and Bob Hainsworth [photo: Peter Stephenson]

  

Steve Bowtell (tug pilot) with his support crew ... Nathan "Can you also get that t-shirt in bright colours" Bowtell and Alex Horvath [photo: Kevin Rodda]

 

AEF passenger Kristal Irvin with her flight certificate ... and her morale/support crew [photo: Kevin Rodda]

Mick Moloney (rear seat) with AEF passenger Jodie Tobler ... and L2 Peter Stephenson as Duty Instructor and Ground Crew [photo: Kevin Rodda]

 

Kevin Rodda with AEF passenger Ian Robertson on late final in CQC [photo: Nathan Bowtell]

We had some company at 30 with Warbird formation take-off and flight practice ... [photo: Kevin Rodda]

... and some circuits from a solitary but persistent "fruit bat" [photo: Kevin Rodda]