Hi all
As our
good mate Lara Bingle happily told us…where the
bloody hell were you….. you missed a
cracker of day. The quick pic I took
this morning (see above) as we were unwrapping the
gliders really tells it all as the Cu’s were
developing nicely. According to Speedy, today’s
soaring was as good as yesterday’s (which I hear
may have been called off prematurely)
Today’s
crew was yours truly (AEI but with no passengers L ),
Peter Stephensonand Mark Thompson as our able
instructors (with no students L ),
Alan Graham was controlling the troops as Duty
Pilot and exTug Master Tony was dragging us into
the air. With no students around, we left
the Blanik alone & Di’d the IS28 and
eagerly unwrapped and DI’d the Club Libelle
& headed over to 12 where we stayed for the
day. It was certainly hot but there was some
wind around which made it quite bearable.
Mike
Moloney popped in with a guest in the later part
of the morning. Linday Mitchell spent the whole
day with the crew, helped fix the radio in the Club
Libelle with some strategically placed tape &
solder - thanks Lindsay. Later in the day he did a
mutual/instructional flight with Alan. Our
feathered friend Speedy was of course around to
take advantage of the conditions. He disappeared
just before 11am and returned just before 2pm.
No
students and no passengers but great conditions
meant the crew did all the flying today. Other
than a unusually short flight of 27 mins by Mark
in CQC and Tony’s CQC hanger flight, the
majority of flights today were 1+ hr. Also,
many of those 1+hr flights were deliberately
cut short in order to allow someone else to hop
into the seat!
8
flights today.. 5 in IS28 and 3 in the Club
Libelle. Myself and Peter shared the Club Libelle
and all our flights were 1hr+ with each flight
needing brakes to get back down… At one point
Peter reported on the radio that he was stuck at
4,000 & couldn’t get down…yeah right..
Alan
disappeared off for the first flight shortly after
10am and returned back after achieving what I
think was his first hour flight @ CGC??
Cloud
base was conveniently around 4,500 ft and most of
the flights today got out past the step to take
advantage of the lift.
Honours
for the longest club flight goes to Peter (1hr
23mins)… Even as the sea breeze started
rolling in after 2pm and the lift started to
disappear, I still managed a 1Hr+ flight –
landing @ 3:30pm.
Mark
relieved Tug Master Tony which then allowed Tony
to hop into the IS28 for a short-ish hangar
flight.
Last
flight landed @ 3:30pm, quickly followed by
wrapping up the two gliders and cold drinks in
Kevin’s hanger..
All up..
a booming day.
Regards,
