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Almost six hours flight time
from just 9 launches - summer soaring is on the way at
Caboolture.
The flights occurred in four
gliders - two from the club fleet and two private, and
the stats for the day were such that Twin Astir IKW
was the lowest scoring aircraft with 1:15 from its one
launch.
In rising order from there -
Standard Libelle GCP at 1:18, Blanik GYK at 1:30 and short
wing Kookaburra GLM at a whopping 1:52!
Kookaburra Airlines proprietors
Speedy Gonsalves and Kevin Rodda set the pace early
with 48 minutes from the day’s second launch. That
was from RWY06, which proved to be the right runway
for the whole day.
There was plenty of lift around
in the late morning, as pre-solo student Liam Burrell
showed with training flights of 35 and 33 minutes.
Meanwhile there was much activity in the tie down
area.
Bob Turner had the advice of
Bert Persson and ex-club member Ken Robinson on
rigging his Libelle GCP for post-Form 2 evaluation,
and the distant figures in the background are Lindsay
Mitchell and Tony Sorensen doing the same on the Twin
Astir.
The midday launches of the two
evaluation flights resulted in the previously
mentioned 1:18 for Bob in GCP and 1:15 for Lindsay in IKW.
Yes, big boys of the club, your toy is back for you to
play with!
Meanwhile Bob’s Libelle
partner Brian Allerby went flying with Speedy for
another 47 minutes on what turned out to be the last
long flight of the day.
By two o’clock, when Kevin
Rodda took off for a solo hangar flight, the abundance
of cloud had been blown away by the NE wind and the
Kookaburra was down to 17 minutes. Two short circuit
training flights for Liam ended gliding operations at
15:25. However that is not the end of significant
flights for the day.
A new face in SPA: after the
appropriate serious conversation with Duty Instructor
Tony Sorensen and Tow Pilot Tony Esler, Rory Rearden
changed his Duty Pilot hat for a headset and took off
for his first circuits in the Pawnee.
All that flying and a new club
tuggie in the making - bring on the rest of summer!
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