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Lift
is all we need!
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Saturday
17-Jun-12
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Our
theme song today was ... "all we need is lift ...
all we need is lift ... all we need is lift, love ... lift
is all we need" ... (with appropriate apologies
to John Lennon and Paul McCartney).
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The tows behind SPA into the blue over Caboolture and
Morayfield (as we headed upwind from 24) were hard work
... they were full of bumps and turbulence that promised good
lift. Much to our disappointment however, there was very little lift to be found all day!
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John
Clayton (Duty Instructor), Peter Stephenson (Instructor),
Chris Weir (Air Experience Instructor), Mike Grady (Tug
Pilot) and David Hawes (Duty Pilot) made up the Duty crew.
They were joined by recent
new members Justice Lockley, Lars Widjsman and Jesse Gain
as well as Nathan Cornwell, Karl Bodi, Bernard Gonsalves
and Kevin Rodda to make it a busy day at the 24 flight
line.
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Peter
Stephenson with Jesse Gain and Justice Lockley.
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Nathan
Cornwell and John Clayton - after a check flight Nathan
took CQC for a solo flight to record the longest flight of
the day!.
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Along
with the friends and relatives who turned up at the
pie-cart to support our AEF passengers e had some unscheduled
drop-in visitors enjoying the flight line as (as they considered possible future involvement with the
Club). It
was a hive of activity around the pie-cart for most of the
day.
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Chris
Weir readies QA for one of our two Air Experience Flights
today while Lars Widjsman (white t-shirt) waits to run the
wing. In the front seat is Craig Christie.
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We had a
peanut gallery ...
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...
as well as a press gallery!
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All
up, there were 13 flights for the day ... 2 air experience
flights, 2 member solo flights and 9 training flights (7
flights in CQC and 6 flights in QA).
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The
longest aero-tow launch flights for the day were:
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- Nathan
Cornwell in CQC (31 minutes in CQC)
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- Kevin
Rodda / Karen O'Reilly (25 minutes AEF in QA)
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- David
Hawes / John Clayton (23 minutes in CQC)
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- Chris Weir
/ Craig Christie (22 minutes AEF in QA)
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Speedy
returned to the pie-cart at around 3:00 pm to collect his
van after a 50 minute flight in his K14 motor glider
... he claimed that most of his flight was
motor on as he unsuccessfully searched for thermal
activity!
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"Shake it,
shake it, tail-feather" ... Karl Bodi and Nathan Cornwell
do their very best "Blues Bros" impersonation!
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Back
at his hangar ... Speedy is obviously (and quite
justifiably) extremely proud of the recent repairs and
paintwork that has undertaken on the nose of his Ka6-Cr
(VH-GSR) ... not to be confused with the recent nose-job
that he has also just completed on Garrett Russell and Barry McCarthy's
ESKA6 (VH-GRS).
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Safe
flying,
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Kevin
Rodda
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(who
traded with the Duty Pilot an undertaking to do this report
for an early-mark from YCAB)
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on
behalf of
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Today's Sunday
Crew
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