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From: Barry McCarthy
Date: Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 7:37 PM
Subject: Monday At Caboolture
To: cgcmemlist@vicnet.net.au
After moving our regular flying day it was hoped
reasonable weather might be on the cards at YCAB today
... but this was not the case with an overcast
sky greeting us and with reasonable low cloud cover
no lift was evident with
the air as smooth as glass.
Never the less a good roll-up occurred ... which
included Lindsay
Mitchell, John Nestor, Anne Bradley, Ken Mitchell,
Bob Hainsworth, Charles
Hoch, Shane Tuck and David Crocker. Judith Smith
telephoned in to report
that she was on the sick list and regular
"Friday Flyer" Arthur Mailey was
busy supervising installation of a new roof on his
recently purchased home
on Buderim.
Duty Instructor was L2 Barry McCarthy and "Tuggies"
for today were John
Knox (am) and CFI John Ashford (pm).
We were just about to tow gliders, GYK and CQC, to
the flight line when John
Knox gave us the bad news ... TOJ had a flat
battery. Fortunately John
Nestor had a heavy duty set of jumper leads so we
got TOJ started and for
most flights thereafter a jumper start was
necessary.
Welcome visitor was Neil Schaefer (Chief Flight
Instructor for Go Fly
Aviation) who some years ago was a Level 1
Instructor at Lake Keepit. Neil
called to renew his "affair" with gliding
and after a flight with Barry in
the IS28B2 advised that he will be joining the Club
with the aim of renewing
his Instructor Rating.
No lift around but John Nestor, Ken Mitchell and
Shane Tuck, after check
flights, each ventured aloft as did Bob Hainsworth
and Charles Hoch BUT all
were back on the ground after short flights
... David Crocker continued his
training and believes that he is now ready for some
challenging simulated
"rope breaks".
With about four flights yet to get aloft the sky
decided to open-up with
light drizzle and then rain SO we packed-up in the
wet BUT did manage the
following flights albeit all were very short given
the conditions:-
GYK 8 flights
CQC 3 flights
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Total 11 flights
2 Hours 52 mins
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Somewhat of a frustrating day BUT a good day for
short training flights as
the airfield was pretty quite.
Fingers crossed for better weather next
Friday/Saturday and
Sunday........watch this space for some good news
from our Club President
about SPA.
Safe Flying,
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Barry
McCarthy
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On behalf
of "The Friday Crew"
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