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From: Mike
McCluskey
Date:
Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 8:23 AM
Subject:
Saturday flying is go
To:
cgcmem@mailmanlist.net.au
Looking like a great day so far - contrary to
the morning forecasts.
Call the pie cart if you're thinking of joining
us
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Mike
McCluskey
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From: Garrett
Russell
Date:
Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 7:41 AM
Subject:
Passenger Flying Saturday
To:
cgcmem@mailmanlist.net.au
Be
thankful, very thankful, for passengers and the
members who bring them to the airfield. They are the
only thing that kept Caboolture Gliding Club flying on
the Saturday of the club's AGM.
The
day's passengers actually outnumbered the duty crew by
five to four. The crew were AEI Mike McCluskey, tuggie
Steve Chapman, volunteer DP Rupert Perry and me.
Speedy Gonsalves was the only other member at the
flight line, and the first to launch with the friend
he had along as passenger in GLM.
The
first launch in a club glider was the day's one AEF
booked for 11:00. We were late getting out because of
the need to lubricate the l'Hotellier connections in
CQC and, frankly, because any haste seemed like a
waste of energy. With no response from other members
to Mike's email showing the attractive sky, we left
the Blanik (DI'd and ready to go just in case) and
took only the 28 and Club Libelle out to RWY12.
Another
reason for taking our time was that the attractive sky
was beginning to lose its shine under a layer of high
stratus - but, as so often happens in gliding, that
was just the weather playing games with our minds.
From Speedy's first launch in GLM for 55 minutes, we
were treated to a lift fest that lasted through lunch
time!
The
next two flights - Mike with the AEF and me with a
private passenger - were 1:03 and 1:00, and both were
terminated early to get CQC back for the next
passenger. Around the same time Bert Persson
self-launched for a couple of hours.
By
two o'clock the big lift was all finished, or so we
thought. Mike took two family/friend pax for flights
of 20 and 17 minutes, and when that was done Rupert
and I took off for a tie down flight just 12 minutes
long in silky smooth afternoon air. But in the lighter
Club Libelle, Mike worked hard to find 44 amazing
minutes of soaring which ended just after four - our
declared deadline for the day to allow us to wrap up
before the AGM was due to start.
The
day's stats:
GLM
1 flight 0:55
GJY
1 flight 0:44
CQC
5 flights (4 with pax) 2:52
Not
bad for a day when visitors outnumbered pilots at the
Pie Cart.
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Garrett
Russell
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John and
Louise Arvier (photo: Mike McCluskey)
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Louise
Arvier in CQC (photo: Mike McCluskey)
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