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From: Garrett
Russell
Date:
Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 8:05 AM
Subject:
Another grey-blue day
To:
cgcmem@mailmanlist.net.au
That
Kevin Rodda and Bert Persson tied for most
fuel-efficient flights of the day says a lot about
Sunday’s soaring conditions: both left all the fuel
in their self-launchers’ tanks and stayed firmly on
the ground.
Best
flight duration from an actual launch was also a tie:
27 minutes in GQA, between duty AEI Chris Weir's
second and third passengers, with runner-up going to
his first passenger at 26 minutes. Given those times,
Mike McCluskey’s 25 minutes with his son Keeghan in
GYK was highly commendable, especially as he had only
dropped in on his way home from the beach and was
assisting the crew by taking the Blanik on a tail wind
launch to reposition from RWY30 to RWY06.
However
the day’s top prize goes to another non-flying
performance. David Guzzwell arrived mid-morning with a
family friend for one of the passenger flights, but
promptly abandoned his family social Sunday to stay on
as stand-in for the day’s non-existent Duty Pilot.
Before David’s generous intervention, it had been
heavy going for the rostered duty crew of only Duty
Instructor (Tony Sorensen), Tuggie (Neil Schaefer) and
AEI (Chris Weir).
The
weather was largely a repeat of Saturday’s
grey-to-blue, but with more heat and paradoxically
less lift. Chris could only get 20 minutes in the Club
Libelle after his passenger duties were finished, and
Bernie Gonsalves continued his run of short flights in
the Kookaburra. But he did treat the Pie Cart crowd to
a fine spectacle of GLM side-slipping down to 06 grass
right with GYK behind him on final for grass left when
the lack of lift forced both into simultaneous
circuits.
The
day’s training flights were a combined currency
check and introduction to the IS-30 for Mark Yabsley,
and five flights around the quarter hour mark for air
cadet Tyler Morrison, in which he progressed admirably
towards handling his own take offs and landings.
It
all added up to just over four hours of flying from 13
launches for GYK, GQA, GLM and GJY.
And
no photos because we were all too busy!
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