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Abandoned
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Judith
Smith's email to Garrett Russell and Kevin Rodda this
morning included the comment ...
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"Maybe
today is not going to be kind either! Pity."
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Garrett's
response confirmed Judith's fears ...
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Sadly, Judith, today was much less kind! I went down to the airfield as last minute relief L2 for Dave Donald, who
had a family medical emergency. Drove with wipers and headlights on almost all the way from Caloundra and
arrived to find the rest of the duty crew standing
like shags on a rock in light drizzly rain. After a
couple of hours of vainly wishing the solid overcast
to clear we transferred the one AEF to tomorrow,
then joined Bert at McCafe to wait out an improvement
in the sky. When it was still solid overcast at 11:00,
with a base of about 2,000’ and the cloud looking
darker to windward, we finally conceded defeat - and I
drove back up to the coast with wipers on for part of
the way, yet clear and steamy hot north of Coolum.
Frustrating with a capital PH!!
At least flying seems more sure for tomorrow.
An additional 6 or 7 degrees more sure!
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Webmaster's
note
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Garrett's
reference to the sound "ph" in
"frustrating" is similar to your webmaster's
occasional sarcastic reference to "ph as in Surf
Boat". English is indeed an interesting language but
it is definitely
not PHONETIC ... the classic example being how "ghoti"
and "fish" can sound the same (the
gh =
"f" as in
rouGH ... the
o =
"i" as in wOmen
... and the
ti =
"sh" as in naTIon).
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From: Lindsay
Mitchell
Date:
Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 8:34 PM
Subject:
Saturday
To:
cgcmemlist@vicnet.net.au
Hi
Everyone,
The
day did not get off to a great start and didn't
improve.
First
was several of us got an emergency call from Dave
Donald as duty L2 that he had a family emergency and
was at the Mater Hospital so wouldn't be able to do
his duty. In true club spirit Garrett
volunteered to act as L2 until lunch time and Bob
Turner volunteered to take over then. This
makes about 8-9 duties Garrett has done in the month,
incredible when you consider he was trying to get some
family time for Christmas and gave his time willingly
at 0530. Thanks very much Garrett and also Bob
even though he wasn't needed.
Garrett's
generosity was not needed as the next downer was the
weather. Low 8/8ths cloud did not inspire
the thought of aviating but we waited and waited for
it to hopefully burn off. The duty crew of
Garrett, Nick Sheahon, Steve Chapman, Bert Persson and
myself were the only CGC members at the field and by
1115 the sky was still 8/8ths cloud and didn't look
like clearing so we called it a day. Nil flights
for the day.
Hopefully
tomorrow will be better conditions but with storms
forecast please keep a close eye on the weather .
Have
safe happy fun.
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Lindsay
Mitchell
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