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The Duty Crew today
consisted of John Ashford (Duty Instructor), Neil Muspratt (Air
Experience Instructor), Tony Esler (Tug Pilot) and Dan
Kershaw (Duty Pilot)
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Unfortunately, most of
the day's activities took place in the tie-down area
before we ventured to RWY12 to an afternoon of dodging
rain to achieve only five short flights.
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Shane
Tuck and Arthur Mailey spent another full day on the
construction of the new pie-cart (its looking great
guys!) ...
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Tony Sorensen, Alan
Graham and Dan Kershaw had IS-28 CQC ready to go ...
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John
Ashford, Pearce Mitchell (DDSC) and Neil Muspratt had
John's Atlas self-launching glider out of the trailer and rigged
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I
also had the K6 out ready to rock and roll ...
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By the time we set up
camp at the 12 flight line it started to shower before
we could get the gazebo up ... so it was under the awning
of my campervan that we quickly set up shop out of the rain
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We weren't really sure
as to what headwear fashion statement Neil Muspratt
was trying to make, however he and Alan Graham both
appeared quite content to remain relatively warm out
of the very cold rain.
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We did manage to
squeeze in five aerotow launches between patches of
inclement weather (as well as couple of self-launches
in the Atlas) with the first launch in at 11:15 and the
last flight being a hangar flight in CQC (launched at 1:54 pm).
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Longest flight of the
day was an Air Experience Flight of 25 minutes where
Neil Muspratt took up Jim Mumford (that flight
accounted for just under half CQC's four flights today
that totaled 51 minutes).
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Jim Mumford (at right
with pilot Neil Muspratt at left) is pictured here
with his son who had purchased the flight as a gift
for him.
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I used every trick that
I could think of ... including contemplating an attempt to thermal
away from above the exhausts of the deep fryers in the
kitchens at the pub, the fish shop or Maccas ...
however could only scrounge 21 minutes from a 3200 ft
launch at 12:30. It was very hard work but a lot of
fun!
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The day's flying activities
came to an abrupt end with a scramble to get the
gliders and the tug under cover as rain swept in over
the airfield around 2:00 pm.
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Kevin Rodda
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