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Sunday
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From: nicholas
sheahon
Date:
Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 8:51 PM
Subject:
Sunday Report
To:
cgcmemlist@vicnet.net.au
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With
only the rumour of two possible new members this
morning, the duty crew of Peter Stephenson, Mike Grady
and myself hesitated briefly before getting the toys
out of their wrappers at all. The arrival of Rachael
Barnes, Damien Chrzanowski , and with Karl Bodi on the
phone for a status report before coming to the field
had us jump into action and we had the IS-28 and Pie
Cart at the 12 threshold in time for the first launch
just after 10am. We were also then joined by Florian
Poff, Karl Bodi, Neil Muspratt as AEF and David
Guzzwell complete with 'Maxi', David's parent's
beautiful German Shepherd.
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Maxi trying to look Mini? - photo by Nick
Sheahon
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The
first flight was taken by Rachael and Peter
Stephenson. Rachael (who works for Virgin as a
performance engineer) had done a little motor gliding
before out of Tyagarah, but this was her first flight
in a true glider. She and Damien had two training
flights each and promptly signed up as new members so
welcome to them both.
David
was expecting two friends to arrive a little later and
as such it was decided that we should have QA on the
flightline as well so Neil and (I think it was) David
kindly brought the second glider to runway 12.
Florian
was next in line to fly with Peter and he continued
his circuit entry training with two short flights in
CQC.
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CQC returns for another landing on 12 grass left
- photo by Nick Sheahon
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Neil
was the AEF for the day and took David's friend Emma
for her first flight in any light aircraft after a
little convincing from the gallery at the Pie Cart.
Neil returned her 22 minutes later (which at that
stage was flight of the day) and completely changed
Emma's facial expression from a little concerned to
completely stoked. Karl Bodi then took Stephen Bonner
(David's other friend), also in QA for 20 minutes.
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Haven't we moved away from winter quickly this
year? Space in the shade near the pie-cart was at a
premium today - photo by Nick Sheahon
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It
was then decided that David should tick 'outlandings'
off his training card and with Peter in CQC performed
a nice landing 'sort of' using some of runway 12. He
followed this flight up with a solo hanger flight
which turned out to be flight of the day at 24
minutes. Florian and Peter did the hanger flight in QA
and I'm pretty sure I heard Peter compliment Florian's
improvement on this flight at the end of the day.
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Tug pilot Mike Grady looks on while a
(deliberately anonymous) crew member takes a brief nap
in the shade - photo Nick Sheahon
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All
in all, considering that we were wondering if we would
have any flying at all early this morning, a sheet of
12 flights and two new members was a pretty good
result. Thanks to all who helped around the Pie Cart
today (including a late visit from Garrett following
an Aeroclub meeting) with retrieves and packing up
etc. Let's hope we continue to get more good flying
weather in future weeks (just with a little more lift
would be nice).
Stats
for the day are as follows:
CQC
9 flights for 2 hours and 1 minute
QA
3 flights for 51 minutesSafe Flying and Happy Landings
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Nick Sheahon
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DUTY PILOT
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