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"New"
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Garrett
Russell (Duty Instructor), Mark Thompson (Instructor)
and I (Air Experience Instructor and fill-in Duty
Pilot) were busy removing water from the covers of IKW
at the tie-down area this morning when we spotted what
we thought might have been a potential new member
striding towards us from the Aero Club car park
carrying a back pack over his shoulder. Our hopes were
increased further when he stopped at the nose of IKW
and said "G'day". It was only then that we
realised it was actually our rostered Tug Pilot Steve
Chapman minus the beard
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A
beardless Steve Chapman
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Daily
inspections were completed on the Twin Astir (IKW) and
the Blanik (GYK) and we headed for RWY12 as the Women
of Aviation day at YCAB got under
way.
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Aircraft
of all types lined up at the front of Hangar 107 as
the Women of Aviation event got under way at around
9.00 am
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As I set
up the flight line at RWY12 it became more obvious to
me as to why comments had been made about MOO's
"gypsy caravan resemblance" since the new
roof has been installed.
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MOO
taking advantage of the shade at RWY12
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RWY12
soon became a procession of various powered aircraft
taking participants in the "Women of
Aviation" day on flights ... in particular the
radio was full of "Tiger One" to "Tiger
Two" and similar calls as two of the three Tiger
Moths flying today undertook formation flights during
the morning.
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A
regular at YCAB for many years, Ken Scott in his
beautiful Tiger Moth (VH-FAG).
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Garrett
Russell did two family/friend flights with Pat Danaher
in the Blanik ... an experience that Pat enjoyed
immensely (but must have felt very foreign to him
compared to being at the controls of commercial
passenger aircraft).
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Pat
Danaher and Garrett Russell in Blanik GYK
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The
arrival of members Mark Yabsley and Rupert Perry
increased the activity at the flight line to a final
tally of 8 flights for a total of 2 hrs 31 mns (GYK 5
flights for 1hr 23 mns and IKW 3 flights for 1hr 8
mns).
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Cloud
base was at only 2000 feet for early flights but
lifted to 3000 feet by around noon ... there was some
lift to be had but basically it was good weather for
training circuits.
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My 30
minute AEF flight with "Women of Aviation"
participant Julie Sheather in IKW ended up being the
longest flight of the day while the hangar flight in
IKW (Mark Thompson sharing the last launch of the day with Garrett
Russell at 2:20 pm) was the next longest flight at 24
minutes.
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The
cooler and less humid conditions made life in the
shade much more enjoyable than was the case last
weekend!
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Kevin
Rodda
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AEI
/ DUTY PILOT
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