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Sunday
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Photos
and captions courtesy of Kevin Rodda |
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Chris
Weir and David Guzzwell ready for action with the
pie-cart set up at RWY12
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From: David
Guzzwell
Date:
Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 6:45 PM
Subject:
Sunday's flying.
To:
cgcmemlist@vicnet.net.au>
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Rod
Wilson took friend Danielle Grist for a flight in the
Blanik L-13 (GYK) ...
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and Chris Weir (rear seat) had his friend Rodrigo
Romero excited for his flight in the IS-30 (GQA)
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G'day,
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In
contrast to yesterday's clear skies, today began
rather cloudy, and stayed that way. Duty Crew
consisted of Peter John - L2, Kevin Rodda - AEI, Karl
Bodi - Tug Pilot and I. We were joined early by
Chris Weir, Alan Graham, Rod Wilson and Kevin Rodda
and somewhat later by Rodrigo Romero (friend of
Chris), Richard Sampson (our AEF), Danielle Grist
(friend of Rod) and Speedy.
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Meanwhile
Bernard "speedy" Gonsalves had Kevin Rodda's
KA6 (GRV) on its way to the flight line
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Speedy
ready for GRV's evaluation flight after completion of
her Annual Inspection and 50 Year Survey
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Flying
got underway just after 10am with Alan Graham taking
"passenger" Peter John for a 28 minute
flight in CQC. Following flights were with real
passengers Danielle, Richard and Rodrigo and their
respective pilots Rod, Rod and Chris (Richard being a
rather larger lad could not fly with Kevin).
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Alan Graham being congratulated by Peter John after
receiving his passenger rating (the $50 note didn't
sway PJ's assessment at all ... and Alan claimed it
was only for his lunch order anyway!)
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The
5th launch, just after midday, was Speedy; not in any
of his own aircraft but in GRV for an evaluation
flight. I didn't see his evaluation checklist
but it must've been huge because he did not come back
till we were packing up the other gliders over 2 hours
later.
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Today's fleet ... IS-30 (GQA), KA6 (GRV) and Blanik
L-13 (GKY) at the flight line and IS-28 (CQC) already
launched
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PJ launches Speedy in GRV, her first flight since
Feb'11 (at 50+ years old she still has some style!)
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The
day was wrapped up with hangar/solo flights. Kevin
Rodda in GQA for 23 min, myself in CQC for 48 min and
Chris Weir in GYK for 41 min.
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Stats
in brief:
CQC,
3 for 1:36
GYK,
2 for 1:15
GQA,
2 for 0:56
GRV,
1 for 2:10
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Cheers
and happy soaring,
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David
Guzzwell
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DUTY
PILOT
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