Headline Friday at CGC 

10-Oct-14

BIG HEADLINE NEWS:

Friday flyer Ken Mitchell aced the one hour solo he’s been chasing for a C Certificate.

EVEN BIGGER HEADLINE NEWS:

That was only one of FIVE hour plus flights - almost half of the times on the flight sheet over or close to the magic 60 minutes. In ascending order:

1:06 Judith Smith and Arthur Mailey GXQ
1:10 Bob Hainsworth GJY
1:12 Ken Mitchell CQC
1:40 Barry McCarthy GJY
3:53 Kevin Rodda GRV

And Tony Sorensen landed just short of making it a list of six with a 56 minute AEF.

Congratulations to Ken, to Kevin “if I’d known it was that close I’d have stayed up another seven minutes” Rodda, and to Judith and Arthur, who scored their time on a hangar flight!

If you’re paying close attention you will have also noticed that Judith and Arthur were in a glider that has not been on the flight line for some time. Lindsay Mitchell had arrived at the airfield very early to complete the Form 2 on Blanik GXQ, which he did with the assistance of John Nestor working on the radio. They got the glider out to the RWY12 flight line by lunchtime and Lindsay took off just before 1300 for the annual check flight.

That made it a five glider day, with all four of the club’s available gliders in the air during the day.

GYK was mainly used for training flights with new member Robert Collins before Anne Bradley joined me for a 38 minute flight from the day’s last launch to end Yankee Kilo’s year of solid service. She is now off line for her annual airworthiness inspection.

THE STATS BEHIND THE HEADLINES:

CQC 3 flights 1:34
GXQ 2 flights 1:39
GYK 4 flights 1:41
GJY 2 flights 2:50
GRV 2 flights 4:14

Thank you to John Knox and Karl Bodi for providing the all important lift to get the rest of us up to the lift.  

If Friday’s lift continues, you’re in for a big weekend!