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Sunday
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23-Sep-12
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From: David
Hawes
Date:
Sun, Sep 23, 2012
Subject:
Sunday 23 rd Sept Flying
To:
members@glidingcaboolture.org.au
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Today was a glorious day for
gliding at Caboolture.
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The duty crew were there nice
and early ready for the days flying. The crew
today was Peter Stephenson , Mick Moloney , Chris Weir ,
Tony Sorenson and yours truly.
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Unfortunately the vandals had
visited the site again ? last night . The first car in
the line up had its car battery stolen. The middle car
in the line up was trashed. They had attempted to hot wire
it, but gave up in frustration and then made sure it would
never drive again. The third car seemed to be ok but
we could not get it to kick over – gave up a few feeble
whimpers but refused to start. ( some one did say this
car had not been driven for weeks ! )
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With some quick thinking and a
battery substitution we had one of the first retrieve cars
going and were off heading over to runway 12 where we
stayed for the day.
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Thanks must go to David
Guzzwell who did some fine glider engineering/maintenance
and had the IS 28 back in shape for the start of
flying.
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All up today we had 13 flights
spread over GJY , GYK and CQC.
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Chris Weir was off first to
take the Libelle for a quick spin but we did not see him for
good 1 hr 14 min. - great flight / thermally
Chris !!
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Mick Moloney took the AEF for
a very enjoyable 43 mins.
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Shane Tuck continued his
training with Peter, racking up another 3 flights for his
log book.
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Mike Grady, David Higgs, Karl
Bodi, Simon Descovich and David Guzzwell were other members
who enjoyed single flights , mutual flights and some
acrobatic good fun.
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For safe keeping the retrieve
car batter has been placed in the container .
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The cash tin only had a float
of $35 ( ? had been $50 in the past ) – there is again $35
left as the float
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Tony Sorensen your $5 is in
the float tin as well (thanks for the loan so that
hange could be give to our visitor. )
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The IS 28 seems to have a
faulty radio button on the front stick - (mentioned in the
log book as well as minor defect ).
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As the cars and van are in
full view from the road, they seem to be attracting unwanted
attention. I am concerned that the next target might be the
van – obviously being unlocked I am sure they are having a
good poke around in there. Hopefully they leave it as
they find it and not trash it just for fun. Would another
less obvious area on the field be possible ?
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All in all, every one had a
great day in the sun.
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David Hawes
Duty
Pilot - for the Sunday Crew
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