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From: Garrett Russell
Date: Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 8:01 AM
Subject: Three Tuggie Friday @ YCAB
To: CGC cgcmemlist@vicnet.net.au
Not only three tuggies but three instructors as
well, and all kept busy for the time they were
on hand. That¹s a pretty big Friday 13 flights and
just short of five hours flying and all in the absence
of most of the regular Friday crew!
Barry McCarthy, Arthur Mailey, Bob Hainsworth and
Charles Hoch were all otherwise occupied and
Judith Smith had business which called her away from
the Pie Cart about lunchtime. Their places were very
well filled by less ‘senior’ Friday regulars Ken
Mitchell and John Nestor, new members (as of last
Friday) Kevin Dobbie and Neil Schaefer, irregulars
David Higgs and Rod Wilson looking for annual check
flights, and a very irregular visit across the Tasman
from former club instructor Dave Austin. Welcome back
to flying the big island, Dave!
Dave¹s 46 minute flight with duty instructor Bob
Turner in CQC shared the honour for flight of
the day with Neil Schaefer¹s first flight in a glider
for many decades and Neil followed that with another
45 minutes in company with Bob, soaring back up for
extended flying after he entertained the Pie Cart
crowd with many repeated spins. Bob must have finished
the day feeling rather spun out, having also done
David and Rod¹s check flights.
Meanwhile I did training flights with Kevin and a
daily check with John, David was pressed into
service as the third instructor to check Ken out
before his solo, and we trooped off for a lengthy
runway change from 24 to 12.
Our three tuggies were John Knox, Steve Bowtell and
Bert Persson, who stepped in to keep us flying
when Steve had to leave for work early. Thanks to all
three for a great effort.
The afternoon saw Shane Tuck and Dave Crocker join
the throng, and very great thanks are due to
Shane for an outstanding example of club spirit. He
happily gave up his line in the flight queue in favour
of helping Bert put the tug away and filling the car
fuel jerry cans so that Dave could get more than one
flight in the limited time we had available and on
the second of those flights Dave scored the Blanik
flight of the day at 32 minutes.
First flight next Friday is reserved for you,
Shane, with thanks!
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