I’ll try again. It does not seem to have gone through last night.

Judith

 

 

The weather bureau’s forecast for the area said a ‘shower or two’. Caboolture had two showers in the course of our day.

 

While the sun still shone, we prepared gliders GYK, CQC and JY with hopes of a nice day out.  Intermittent GA traffic, mostly departing, was using runways 06 and 12 but when we were ready to move out, it was agreed, generally, that 06 was the place to be.

 

The Club members involved were John Nestor, Arthur Mailey, Shane Tuck and Bob Hainsworth, all supervised by instructors, Bob Turner, Barry McCarthy and Garrett Russell. Thanks Bob; it’s good to see you back. The other members of the small crew involved in our day out were our tuggies, John Knox and later Karl Bodi.

 

John Nestor started the activities in GYK as clouds built up to bring us Shower No. 1, quite a heavy shower that saw SPA sheltering from the deluge in its hangar while the mere mortals and gliders waited patiently in the open for the weather to clear.

 

An hour-and-a-half later, after the fake chamois had been applied as required, we launched Shane in GYK then Arthur in GJY to recommence proceedings in the hope that things had dried things out a bit. One lonely, darker cloud brought another, lighter shower which did little to dampen our spirits.

 

Arthur continued his quest for the perfect landing in GJY and John continued his conversion flights in CQC while everyone with nothing special to do tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade kangaroos that, at 1400,  it was not yet time for them to take possession of the runways.

 

Finally, we launched Garrett Russell in GYK for its hangar flight at 15.18 and, while everything was still as dry as we could get all the ‘stuff’, we put all gliders to bed for the night. Each glider completed its four flights with GJY recording the outstanding result of the day, one hour in all being the best result for one glider for the day. 

 

Not really a day for long flights but a day we will recall for a month or two as both the busiest and the quietest. 

 

Thanks to Bob Turner for keeping us on track for the day where persistence and patience were definitely needed if we were to put in any flying time.

 

Gliders were all packed away before Karl had SPA tucked up for the day and once we were assured ourselves that all tasks were completed, we headed off home. 

 

Thanks must go to Karl for keeping the tug going for us on such a dismal looking day. 

 

BoM confirmed its belief that tomorrow will be another, brighter day. Good luck to the Saturday crew.

 

Stay safe,