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Friday
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05-Jul-13 |
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From:
Barry McCarthy
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Date: Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 6:50 PM
Subject: Friday At Caboolture
To: cgcmemlist@vicnet.net.au
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We had a good
"roll-up" of Friday Flyers today.....Judith
Smith, Anne
Bradley, John
Nester, Ken Mitchell, Arthur Mailey, Bob Hainsworth
and Shane
Tuck.
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Duty Instructor
Barry McCarthy was ably
assisted by L2 Garrett Russell were
able to welcome back
L2 Bob Turner after his recent trip to the United
Kingdom..... BUT
first a big thank you to our "Tuggie" for
the day Steve
Bowtell and his
"Social Secretary" Nathan Bowtell after
Steve finished his
night shift at QR.
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John Knox will be
back next Friday to do the morning shift.
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After some weeks of
not being able to get into the air and despite the
airfield being still
pretty wet in places Gliders GYK and CQC were soon
towed to Runway 12
to start the day before a wind shift forced a change
to
30.
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First flight covered
an Annual Check and then a series of training
and
check flights as the
field was covered by high cloud with no lift
whatsoever
BUT just after
mid-day a large street developed from the South
East and Bob
Hainsworth managed
52 minutes and Arthur Mailey "milked" to
last of it for
38 minutes to record
the best flights of the day.
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Total Statistics for
the day:-
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GYK
9 flights 2 hours 03 minutes
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CQC
5 flights 2 hours 21 minutes
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Total
14 flights for 4 hours 24 minutes
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Visitors to the
field included Tony Sorenson and Jetstar Cadet
"Joe" (sorry
I did not get your
second name) who had a chat to Tug Master Steve and is
keen to join the
Club and in time fly SPA when it returns to service.
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Also …
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Floating
around in the background were those two great Club
Stalwarts"Speedy"
and Bert dong the odd job "here and there"
... thanks fellows.
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For the Weekend
Flyers please note that the TUG will need to be
refuelled
when Kevin Rodda
delivers the new Fuel Credit Card in the morning ...
the
Jerry Cans have been
filled and cars "topped-up" with fuel BUT
please check
water/oil … also
... the pie cart tyres have been pumped up BUT please
check to ensure they
are still fully inflated.
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BTW ... the radio in
GYK receives BUT will not transmit so needs attention
asap.
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Safe flying,
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Barry
McCarthy
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On behalf of The
Friday Crew
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