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From: Judith Smith
Date: Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 7:22 PM
Subject: Windy Day at 24
To: cgcmemlist@vicnet.net.au
"I
touched down on 24 at 16:17 re my second
flight in WUC (after all but Barry, Arthur and Lynette had
headed for home). The flight was therefore 2 hours 5
minutes. I did not get out of 3500ft step but
climbed to the 3500ft ceiling within the step 9
times from between 1500 and 2000ft. Patchy lift
... great thermaling practice. My
earlier flight in WUC (only 11 minutes) proved
without doubt that there was no lift below 2000ft
at around 1:30 pm!"
Kevin
Rodda’s comments above indicate the sort of day our
small Friday crew gathered up today! We could not
blame the weather, though the fact that we were on 24
for the day, and also the fact that the wind made for
some interesting landings for us to observe, indicates
that many of our flights were of the shorter variety.
CQC and QA were our conveyances on this occasion.
L2, Barry McCarthy, and tuggie, John Knox, commenced
the day with some check flights in QA before mutual
flying got under way. John Nestor and Shane Tuck
widened their experience of flying CQC, whereupon John
and Neil Schaefer scored the flight of the day at 46
mins in a Club aircraft, beating Bob Hainsworth and
Charles Hoch’s 42mins and later, Arthur Mailey and
Karl Bodi’s time of 31 mins. As I said, other times
for our 12 flights were very ordinary!
Apart from the arrival of Steve Bowtell to take over
command of TOJ that was our complement for the day.
Unfortunately, we had to end early so TOJ could be
delivered to Archerfield as required so maybe later
flights may have been better. Maybe. Anyway, well done
Kevin.
Both aircraft added five flights to their total
landings with QA recording 1.59 for its time and CQC
adding an extra minute at exactly 2 hours.
Obviously, the departure of the tug means that our
members will not be flying this weekend so it may be a
good idea to put in some time mulching the garden
ready for the forecast storm on Sunday? Just a
thought.
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