Our
L2, Tony Sorensen, supervised a smallish crew
today with some members put off, perhaps, by the
fuzzy looking sky. Somehow the wind seemed to be
uncertain too, varying between 30 where we set
up with GYK and CQC and 06 where we later
settled. Someone even managed to land 24 during
a lull in the wind. Therefore, thanks must go to
John Knox for taking care of SPA and to Steve
Bowtell who took over to finish off the day as
we made the change to 06.
Tony
and Louis Tumminaro were first off in GYK
closely followed by Ken Mitchell in CQC for what
we thought might be the flight of the day at 38
mins. Charles Hoch and Bob Hainsworth threatened
his record but could not stay aloft quite long
enough and Tony and Louis, again in GYK, beat
them by a whisker. Louis at least learned some
of the tricks Tony has up his sleeve for student
members in his three flights so he was happy
with his day out.
Arthur
Mailey and I made use of CQC once Ken returned
it and scored 51 mins during which we made the
best use we could of every bit of lift in the
lumpy and inscrutable air before joining other
members and the van on 06. Final flights were
taken by Bob and Charles in CQC, and John Nestor
in GYK and, upon their quick-ish return, no one
else felt it worth doing a hangar flight so we
packed up with Karl Bodi choosing to find a more
pleasant day on which to fly. I must agree it
was not nice today with a horizon almost
impossible to find in the haze and wind doing
its best to foil all plans to avoid coming back
to earth. We were finished in time for Tony to
check on SPA before heading off and leaving
Garrett Russell and Neil Schaefer to supervise
any final tasks. Thanks to our instructors for
their time and input on an interesting but
frustrating day.
We
closed the books with 2 hours 21 mins for
CQC’s four flights and, for GYK, 1 hour 22
mins in four flights. Kevin Rodda impersonating
a dreaded bikie appeared once the work was done
and everyone was making their way to ‘the
office’ where, once refreshed enough to face
the traffic, we all departed leaving a rather
quiet row of hangars with ‘Speedy’
Gonsalves, hard at work a few hangars down,
providing the only sight of life.
On
behalf of the Friday crew,
