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Saturday
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A
beautiful winter's day at the 12 flight line ... but
absolutely no lift in that blue sky above!
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[Photo:
Adam French]
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From: Adam
French
Date:
Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:27 AM
Subject:
Saturday 6/7/13
To:
cgcmemlist@vicnet.net.au
Saturday
saw a relaxed day around Caboolture with the duty crew
casually preparing the Blanik and IS-28 for the days
activities conducted from Runway 12 with the aid of
Tim Williams with friend Arthur Theier and a newcomer
to the lighter side of flying Mike Redmond (one of
Caboolture's Tiger Moth pilots) lending a hand.
First
flight of the day saw yours truly take to the skies at
10:25 for a check flight in GYK shortly followed by
Arthur enjoying a quick 16min introductory flight with
Mike McCluskey ably at the controls.
Kevin
Roden had the privilege of introducing new member Mike
Redmond to the world of gliding with a number of
training flights and quick ran out of things to throw
at the experienced pilot. So Mike was quickly
introduced to the thrill of a low level rope break
followed by a wing down takeoff from 30 all taken in
his stride.
Both
Speedy and Kevin Rodda thought they would take to the
air in GSR and WUC respectively, given the enticement
of the clear skies only to find like the rest of us
that there was no lift to be found anywhere.
Speedy clocked up 25 minutes and Kevin clocked up two
flights with times of 23 and 26 minutes. This is where
the fight for flight of the day becomes interesting
seeing as Lindsay Mitchell with Bren Wright (a friend
of Steve Chapman) clocked a in air time of 31min, but
this was achieved from a release height of 4,500ft.
The
other flights for the day saw Tim take GYK on a solo
flight, Tim and Lindsay take CQC out for a bit
of fun with a ribbon cutting exercise seeing one
successful ribbon cut and Mike Mc with myself taking
CQC for a jaunt/hanger flight .
Club
Stats:
13
launches
CQC
4 launches for 1:25
GYK
6 launches for 1:11
Regards
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Adam
French
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DUTY
PILOT
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Even
El Presidente (Lindsay Mitchell) ... chips in to
secure the fleet at day's end!
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[Photo:
Kevin Rodda]
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Bernard
"Speedy" Gonsalves with new member Mike
Redmond ... that's Mike's one-day-old glider
pilot training card proudly on display in his shirt
pocket.
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[Photo:
Kevin Rodda]
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Kevin
Roden (Duty Instructor) with Arthur Theier and Tim
Williams
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[Photo:
Kevin Rodda]
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Mike
McCluskey (Air Experience Instructor) with Adam French
(Duty Pilot)
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[Photo:
Kevin Rodda]
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When
asked why he looked so eager to get home, Lindsay's
dog Loki commented that he was keen to watch the Wallabies
thrash the Lions ... just how wrong can a dog be?
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[Photo:
Kevin Rodda]
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