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Four flight Sunday

20-Jul-14

       

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From: Mike McCluskey
Date: Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 5:17 PM
Subject: Sunday 20-July-14
To: cgcmem@mailmanlist.net.au

Hi All,

 

Crew for the day was yours truly as a AEI, Theo Mus as Duty Pilot, Tor McCall as Tug (he normally tows in Kingaroy), Peter Stephenson as L2.

Ken Mitchell also dropped in for an Annual Check flight but wisely decided against flying as he was feeling very under the weather.

 

Very low  number of flights today (4 ) … 1 check flight for Theo followed by a solo and a text book landing…nice one Theo.

My AEI was a delightful 80 yr gentleman who brought out his extended family that required 2 cars to shuttle them around. Unfortunately the best I could manage on his flight was 25 mins.

 

Shortly after midday we could see Cu’s starting to pop so I  hopped into the blanik for the last flight of the day…I tempted fate & threw down the challenge to the crew of “I’ll see you in a hour”

 

The view from the blanik was taken shortly after 2pm & just before I pulled the airbrakes out to come down… concluding a 1hr 20 m flight which could of easily been longer. The only reason I came down was because I was conscious of the crew sitting on the ground waiting for me so they could go home!

 

Great day & you should have been there to enjoy it with us!

 

 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
Regards,
  
 
Mike McCluskey