Firstly apologies for the late report.

 

Saturday morning didn’t look too promising at Caboolture, but Duty Instructor Kevin Roden made the final call to DI IS-28 and head off to runway 12. The turnout eventuated into a decent days flying with Garrett Russell turning up on his birthday to assist in the days training flights, thanks for your assistance Garrett! Tim Williams scored a lift with Kevin to continue his training, Stephen Wilson to continue his conversion from hang gliders to.... ah gliders and both Alan Graham and Adam French came out to blow the cobwebs out and go for a fly.

 

With Tony Esler flying the Pawnee first launch of the day was at 1000 with Tim Williams and Kevin off for a training flight, followed by successful check flights with Garrett for both Alan and Adam. Stephen Wilson continued his training with Kevin and the duty pilot organised himself a sneaky flight with visiting instructor/tug pilot from Lake Keepit Rob De Jarlais who proved to be a lucky charm for anyone who flew with him as I never knew it was possible to thermal in the rain.

 

The rest of the days flying consisted of a rope break for Tim Williams, getting an idea of how well the 28 will perform, including a follow up flight with a few spins and loops. Alan decided he’d try the lucky charm and go for a fly with Rob, not quite finding the same shed (source of lift), Chris Weir popped out for late arvo flight and Garrett and Adam wrapped up the day with a tie down flight.

 

For what started out a not so promising day of flying turned out to be quite a successful day at Caboolture. Thanks to Kevin and Garrett for instructing, Tony for flying the Pawnee all day, and Adam and Alan for retrieving and launching

 

IS 28: 10 flights at 2 hours and 34 minutes.

Average flight: 15.4 mins

The longest being 22 mins.

 

 

 

 

Dan