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From: Lindsay
Mitchell
Date:
Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 4:07 PM
Subject:
A Hot busy Sunday
To:
cgcmem@mailmanlist.net.au
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Apparently
neither mad men nor Englishmen, these Kangaroos do not
"venture out into the noonday sun". As you
can probably tell by the shadows, this photo was taken
not long after noon ... on the southern side of the hangar that faces
across to the
Warbirds Museum. The kangaroos had no intention of
leaving the shade as we pulled over very close to them
in the retrieve vehicle to take photos.
[photo/caption: Kevin Rodda]
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Sunday
morning dawned clear and bright with a forecast for a
32+day. Keeping in the shade and a high fluid
intake would be the requirement for the day.
When I arrived at YCAB about 0745 Chris Weir
already had the Libelle uncovered with assistance from
Bradley Seymour and Rory Duncan. Bradley
and Rory are Air Cadets who have joined us to continue
their training in conjunction with their training days
at Warwick.
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After
a brief hiatus (Sep'04 to Jul'13), Neil Schaefer has
been back flying with CGC. Over the last 6 months his
Instructor rating has been renewed and he is currently
in the process of training in SPA for tug pilot
endorsement. Today we added another string to Neil's
bow ... retrieve vehicle driver! [photo/caption: Kevin
Rodda]
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Duty
crew Tony Sorensen, Mark Thompson, Alex Horvath and
yours truly all reported for duty. Soon
more keen aviators arrived ... Kevin Rodda, Rachael
Barnes, Damien Chrzanowski, Rupert Perry, Jacob Mason,
David Crocker for starters. Of course Speedy
(Bernard Gonsalves) and Bert (Persson) were present as
well. Steve Bowtell with son Nathan
arrived mid morning after a few hours sleep due to
finishing a night shift.
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Bailey
Seymour (Australian Air Force Cadets) has been flying
with us since Dec'13. [photo/caption: Kevin Rodda]
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RW30
was the starting preferred runway till the wind
shifted early afternoon and operations were moved to
RW06. Neil Schaefer continued his tug pilot
training under Tony's watchful eye and part of that
training was a tug-glider combination landing that few
of us have seen and has been seldom used for real.
Tony and Steve occupied the Blanik for the
hook-up exercise. Chris in the Clubbie
Libelle found conditions to his liking with 2 flights
of 1:10 and 1:21. These were the longest flights
of the day with Jacob's 1:03 in the IS28 the only
flights over the hour. All other flights except the
AEF for 0:41 were training flights so long flights
were not the order of the day. Bert's
did disappear West for 3:19 and I was told when
returning he had to look for sink to get down.
Speedy and Kevin also did 47 minutes in the
Kookaburra.
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Rory
Duncan (Australian Air Force Cadets) flew with
us for the first time today. [photo/caption: Kevin
Rodda]
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Late in
the day Kevin had the pleasure of introducing a young
lady from Austria, Jennifer Fauster, to gliding in
Australia. Jennifer is here for 6 months working
and studying and indicated she will return next
weekend to join the club. She is well qualified
and has about 30 solo flights.
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Rachael
Barnes joined CGC in Sep'13. [photo/caption: Kevin
Rodda]
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Generally
a good day for all but it was disappointing that
Damien did not get a flight. This was in part
due to the duty crew not knowing he and Rachael needed
to leave by 1PM. It is important to tell the
Duty Instructor and Duty Pilot that you need to leave
at a certain time and they will then slot you in to
fly. We all do our best to try to ensure
members do the flying they would like but we need to
know if there are time constraints. Please tell
us.
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Damien
Chrzanowski (pronounced Sha-nov-ski) also joined CGC in
Sep'13. [photo/caption: Kevin Rodda]
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15
flights for the day.
Club
Libelle GJY 2
flights for 2:31
Blanik
GYK 6
flights for 1:43
IS-28
CQC 6
flights for 2:57
Kookaburra
GLM 1
flight for 0:47
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On my
way home I picked up the 'new' Blanik covers from Tash
South after some modifications. Thank-you Tash for
your efforts in doing the mods and your efforts to
mend the older covers.
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Enjoy
many safe fun flights,
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Lindsay Mitchell
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