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the sky completely free of cloud this morning, it
was not long before David Higgs and myself were
joined by Garrett Russell, Tim Williams and newly
solo (at Warwick) friend Ian , Rupert Perry and AEF
pilot Kevin Rodda. |
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again, the club had the services of Mike Maddocks
and his Cessna 180 NMJ for our towing duties. A
little later in the day, we were also joined by Dave
Crocker and Karl Bodi. With no wind to speak of, we
observed that other Caboolture traffic had used all
four of the available runways before we had even
readied our aircraft. |
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| Once
we had completed inspections on GYK, CQC and QA, we
decided to follow the most recent powered departures
and I towed the Pie Cart to 12. No sooner had I
begun to unload the furniture, Garrett arrived and
informed me of a change of plan to 30 and I promptly
diverted. It was one of those 'which runway'
days though and all other traffic had changed to 24
by the time we had set up camp (including 'the
plank' installed by yours truly). |
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| As
such, we decided to launch from 30 and land on 24
and relocate the pie cart again for the remainder of
the day. Some good towing practice for me at least.
Tim and David got proceedings underway with a quick
check flight in GYK which led to a subsequent solo
flight for Tim concluding with what many at the pie
cart awarded as touch down of the day so nice work
Tim. |
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Rodda was next away after a lengthy wait while the
30 odd onlookers gathered to watch Peter Doyle take
his surprised 50th birthday flight in the IS-28. |
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| From
there we really cranked up the pace and worked Mike
and NMJ as we got all three CGC aircraft as well as
Speedy's K6 airborne at once. Kevin set off in QA on
his own (twice), Rupert took friend Tim Beel in CQC
and Garrett and Dave Crocker had three flights in
GYK. Longest flight eventually going to Kevin on his
second attempt in QA with a 51 minute flight. |
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| David
Higgs also took Tim's school friend Ian for
his first Blanik flight and his first flight at
Caboolture. Ian must have impressed as once our tuggy
had refuelled they launched again and David tested
Ian with premature release which he handled nicely.
His reward, final flight of the day without David in
the back. A very impressive effort indeed so very
well done Ian. We look forward to seeing him at YCAB
again in the future. |
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| After
towing Ian for this flight, we were treated to a low
level pass by Mike in the tug to drop the rope
before heading back to Boonah for the evening.
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| Statistics
for the day were as follows: |
| QA
2 flights for 1 hr 22 mins |
| GYK
8 flights for 2 hrs 15 mins |
| CQC
3 flights for 1 hr exactly |
| GSR
1 flight for 47 mins |
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| One
new housekeeping type issue was that during the day
one of the lids blew off the pie cart. It was
replaced but it will need to be secured again
properly or we will have a permanent sunroof at the
control tower end. |
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| Thanks
to everyone as once again, while I did not do any
gliding today, I really enjoyed my day at YCAB with
our club. Here's hoping tomorrow is just as
good. |
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| Regards, |
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| Nick
Sheahon |
| Duty
Pilot |
