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From: Dan
Kershaw
Date:
Mon, May 27, 2013 at 5:24 PM
Subject:
Sunday Flying
To:
cgcmemlist@vicnet.net.au
Evening
all and apologies for the late report.
Sunday
was an example of a typical and expected May day in
SEQ I believe,
the
sun was shining and the wind wasn't too bad
(especially for those
flying
last weekend). I arrived a little late, like the
good duty pilot I
am
to find Yankee Kilo and Quebec Charlie DI'd and
ready to go! Our crew
consisted
of Garrett Russell as Duty Instructor, Chris Weir
AEI/welder,
Mike
Matthews flying the Cessna 180 and Lindsay Mitchell
an additional
helping
hand for the day!
After
replacing a plug in the Cessna, first flight of the
day was Chris and
passenger
John launching from 12 at 1132. Damien and Garrett
managed 3
training
flights in Yankee Kilo whilst Chris was taking up
his second
passenger
for the day Carl Evers. Alan Graham also enjoyed a
leisurely 44
minute
flight with some ballast by the name of Lindsay,
impressing some of
us
with his greased on landing, I reckon you knocked
the top off a few
blades
of grass before settling down Alan, very nice. I
also saw Speedy
launch
his K6 in search of some lift, but I think he was a
tad to early and
landed
on 06 20 minutes later.
Garrett
and Demy Schinkel, a young glider pilot visiting
from Holland
achieved
the flight of the day at 49 minutes in the Blanik!
Demy seemed to
have
enjoyed her flight thoroughly and we might be seeing
more of her at
the
airfield in the coming months. Moving into the
evening as the sea
breeze
blew in Garrett and Dave Crocker did some circuit
bashing without
instruments
and I did my best to not beat the tug back to the
ground. All
in
all a great days flying, thanks to everyone for
their efforts.
Flight
stats:
GYK:
1hr & 51mins @ 7 flights
CQC:
2hr & 22mins @ 4 flights
GSR:
20mins @ 1 flight
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