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From:Robert
Hainsworth
Date:
Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:28 PM
Subject:friday flying 7/12/12
To:members@glidingcaboolture.org.au
Left
home early this morning, too early to see Bob
Turner's email cancelling the day. Arrived at the
field to find John and Anne Nestor there looking
puzzled that no one else was. They had arrived at
7.30, good to see them so keen. John Ashford turned
soon after me, and then John Knox to fly the tug and
we learnt that a cancellation message had been
issued because the weather at Caboolture was bad and
the prognosis was unfavourable. By this time we had
disrobed the Blanik and loaded up the pie cart in
anticipation. Bob Turner was expected to arrive at 9
but why was unclear as he had cancelled the day.
However turn up he did, as did Charles Hoch who came
to fix the broken pie cart window.
The
sky looked good so we agreed that we would fly, Bob
returned home to leave his car for his wife and
retuned on his motorbike, meanwhile I did the DI on
the Blanik with John Nestor watching and learning.
John Ashford could not start the Ford, the battery
was flat and would not respond with jumper leads, he
spent a long time on the car which it appears needs
some work on it. See John's email about it.
NOTE
TO SATURDAY AND SUNDAY CREWS: I put the Ford battery
on charge, the only charger I could find was one of
the trickle chargers, It will probably take a week
to charge it, if it does at all as the battery may
be buggered (technical term), please check it on
both days to see if it seems to be charging. A test
meter would help.
We
dragged the Blanik out to 30 as everyone else
insisted on using it even though the wind favoured
06. After the first launch we moved to 06, but few
of the power pilots followed us. The first flight
was a check flight for me, which was aborted during
the ground run as a recently landed aircraft was
tardy taxying clear of the strip, or maybe we were
over eager to launch. The next was a training flight
for John Nestor which turned out to be the flight of
the day at 38 minutes. Then Charles took a check
flight, after which he and I had mutual flight of 32
minutes. 4 flights for a total of 1 hour 50 minutes.
We
stopped at that because the wind had come up and
further training was deemed not worthwhile. While
retrieving the Blanik to the tie down area the
Barina ran out of fuel about 20 metres short of
crossing 06, we put in most of one jerrycan.
After
the gloomy weather early in the day we had no
further showers and lift was around. |
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