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From: Judith
Smith
Date:
Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 5:01 PM
Subject:
A Friday to end our fun
To:
cgcmemlist@vicnet.net.au
First
off - there were no hours clocked today. Lindsay
Mitchell turned up
and
scored best flight of the day of 52 mins in the
Libelle about lunch
time.
The entry in the Libelle's maintenance release was
three flights for
1.19.
Enough said.
The
sky, for anyone who did not look outside today, looked
sullen and
unpromising
so, hoping things may improve, we concentrated mainly
on
training
flights, etc: Bert Persson with Ken Mitchell on two
thermal finding
exercises
in CQC; Kevin Dobbie off for training flights with Bob
Turner then
with
Garrett Russell, our L2s for the day; and Bob
Hainsworth getting his
annual
check done. Most of our activity was conducted on 12
but as we
started
the day, John Knox in SPA and Bob Turner agreed that
it was quite
obvious
that we would launch GYK, CQC and GJY from 06 as that
was where the
wind
was and then relocate to 12 to comply with the
relatively light traffic
and
see what was happening later.
Hopes
were that the warm, still morning would improve and
cloud base would
lift
from circuit height to something better. In the end,
we did not get
much
cooperation as launches to 3,000 were occasional and
achieved only by
searching
for breaks in the cloud. Arthur Mailey was not
impressed by the
conditions
into which he launched this week since he was back in
a hurry
after
JY and SPA found only very low cloud confronting them.
The main change
in
conditions was that the wind got up and kept everyone
alert all day.
Shane
Tuck took a chance on finding a thermal on his own in
a hangar flight
to
06 and that was the end of GYK's four flights for 1.12
today.
Bob
Hainsworth and Charles Hoch took CQC for their own
thermal search but
were
also victims of the low cloud. Steve Bowtell took over
SPA when Knoxy
left
so thanks go to Bob, Garrett, Knoxy and Steve for
making our somewhat
futile
attempts possible.
With
storms over the Esk area and skies offering little
incentive, the
decision
by Garrett and left to pack gliders and SPA away while
they were
dry
was not difficult to make and, by 14.30 by my watch,
we were carrying
our
bags back to our cars. A glum end to our year.
Flight
stats:
GYK
4 flights for 1:12
CQC
5 flights for 1:43
GJY
3 flights for 1:19
Maybe
the weather gods will be kind and, having had their
fun tormenting the
Friday
crew, will push this weather through quickly so the
weekend has
something
much better to offer members who will, no doubt, turn
out in their
dozens
to make the most of a holiday weekend.
May
I make a request that the supply of paper for the
printer in our
'office'
be replenished. I was to take a copy of our flight
sheet to send on
to
Kevin so he could do accounts but there was no paper
and the printer was
being
difficult as well. Sorry Kevin for letting you down.
Finally
best wishes to everyone for a brilliant New Year of
flying.
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