Saturday 22 December is not the most propitious date for a big member turnout, and a largely overcast sky with cloud base at times as low as 1,500 feet set the seal on today’s fate:

CQC 4 flights 1:30

However that is just a bit over half the story of today. Three of the four launches above were solo flights for UK visitor Ged Terry. They included the best flight of the day in CQC at 24 minutes. The other half of the story is:

GSR 1 flight 1:05

GSR is Speedy’s Ka-6, which beautifully demonstrated the superiority of wood and fabric over metal in marginal soaring conditions (I will now take off my Caboolture Vintage Gliding Club hat and resume normal CGC service)

The final flight on the sheet was a superbly handled check flight for duty pilot Adam French. Of the rest of the duty crew tuggie Steve Chapman flew all five launches, unemployed L1 Mark Thompson kept a lively Pie Cart conversation going and unemployed AEI Karl Bodi left early to do some ... well, Christmas shopping ...

The flying weather will be much better tomorrow and the shopping mall crowds will be much worse, so come out and give Ged a great CGC send off for his last day of flying with us!