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From: Barry
McCarthy
Date:
Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 7:06 PM
Subject:
Friday Flying
To:
cgcmemlist@vicnet.net.au
Not
withstanding a steady 6/8 knot South Westerly
dictating that Runway 06
should
be the operative "Strip" a steady line-up of
General Aviation on
Runway
12 "forced" us to start the day there albeit
it was not long before
"common
sense" and safety saw all aircraft moving to
Runway 24 before the
North
Easterly kicked-in and a finish-up on Runway 06 was
the order of the
day.
L2
was Barry McCarthy assisted by L2 Tony Sorensen
...."Tuggies" included
John
Knox, Karl Brody and Steve Bowtell who we all owe an
ongoing vote of
thanks
to....Members included Kevin Dobbie, Charles Hoch, Ken
Mitchell, John
Nestor,
Arthur Mailey, Judith Smith, Nathan Bowtell and Kevin
Rodda.
Also
seen on the flight line/field were former Members
Kevin Roden, Leon
Moran
and John Nestor's Partner Anne. I heard on "the
grape-vine" that Kevin
"dropped-in"
for a flight but there were too many ahead of him so
he left
early.
From
around approximately 10-30a.m. the sky
"boiled" with lift everywhere as
demonstrated
by training flights in the Blanik L13 coming down on
full
airbrakes
after 30 minute flights for aircraft utilization
with
perhaps the highlight of the day being John Nestor
managing two
noteworthy
flights of 32 and 50 minutes to achieve his B
Certificate
....well
done John.
Arthur
Mailey and Judith Smith came down after an hour as
Judith had an
appointment
to attend.....Kevin Dobbie challenged the thermals for
43
minutes,
Charles Hoch and Karl Brody had a great flight
of 1 hour 14
minutes
BUT the flight of the day went to the "wood and
fabric" brigade
Member
Kevin Rodda in his Ka6 of 1hour 53 minutes.
Actual
statistics were:-
GYK
3
Hours 11 Mins
CQC
2 Hours 33 Mins GRV
2Hours
03 Mins
Total
of 12 Flights.
At
this stage weather conditions look good for both
Saturday and Sunday so
Members
(particularly all our ab-initio students) are
encouraged to get to
YCAB
and enjoy the great flying conditions on offer.
Also
a reminder that the Caboolture Aero Club Inc Annual
General Meeting is
this
SUNDAY.
Safe
Flying.
Barry
McCarthy
On
Behalf Of The Friday Crew.
PS.
I understand that Kevin's and
"Speedy's" latest addition i.e. their
1956
built Kookaburra will be flying tomorrow.......so come
and see this
great
little glider in action.
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[From
Kevin Rodda:
I was talking to Kevin Roden on Thursday and, when he
mentioned that he was collecting family from Brisbane
airport Friday morning, I suggested he call in to YCAB
on his way down from the Sunshine Coast to see the
Kooka and maybe come for a flight in her.
KR2 has a
fondness for Kookaburras as he did a lot of his early
flying in one. Embarrassingly, I got held up with some
matters in Brisbane and forgot about the arrangement I
had made him
until I saw
Kevin at the flight line when I eventually
arrived at
around 1100. He was only still there because, soon
after
arriving
at YCAB, he
had received a call from his passengers to say that
they were
still on the ground in
Sydney after
their flight from the USA and
that
their
flight to
Brisbane had
been delayed by 2hrs
due to a runway surface problem. It was great to catch
up with him and to see him looking so well!]
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