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From: Kevin Rodda
Date: Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 7:58 PM
Subject: Quiet day at YCAB
To: cgcmem@mailmanlist.net.au
Today saw the least aviation activity at YCAB that I can
recall for a rain-free
day on a dry airfield.
Car
parks, hangars, taxiways, runways and the local
airspace were all virtually vacant for most of the
day.
Steve Bowtell
as Tug Pilot ended up being the only member of the
original Duty Crew to be a part of the day's gliding
operations.
Dave
Donald had made the trip to Caboolture, however with
Tony Sorensen at the airfield and available, Dave
took the opportunity to arrange for Tony to
supervise the day’s gliding operations while he
visited his parents on
Bribie
Island
.
Mike McCluskey had organised for me to replace him as Air Experience
Instructor (while he recovers from wrist surgery.
Tim Williams had
informed Garrett that he would not be able to be
Duty Pilot today (or for some time) as he has
decided to put his gliding on hold while
attending University full time.
So
it was off to RWY06 with IKW
to accommodate our only commitment of the day ... an air
experience flight booked for 11.00 am.
When
we arrived there with the van (christened by
Arthur Mailey as "MOO" the "mobile
operations office"), IKW and
SPA, Rob
Clifford called into the flight line to
enquire about joining CGC.
My flight with Phil Ryder on board resulted in 35 minutes (from
a 4,500 feet launch to the north of the airfield …
above the cloud base of 4,000 feet).
We landed long to be close to the RWY06 piano keys with a view to
having only a short distance to travel to tow IKW
to the tie-down area.
However, when I realised that Rob Clifford was still at the flight
line, we towed IKW back there to enable me to
offer for Rob to join me for a ''hangar flight"
as his first taste of gliding (19 minutes from a
2,000 feet launch to the west of the Bribie
Island exit roundabout on the Bruce Highway).
And that was it for gliding at Caboolture today ... two flights in IKW
for a total of 54 minutes.
Tony Sorensen later commented that I had had a big
day … with the longest flight of the day as well
as the second longest flight of the day!
There was however activity of a maintenance kind at YCAB today
...
Bernard "Speedy" Gonsalves, Bert Persson
and Lindsay Mitchell spent a
day in the hangar toiling over the ongoing refurbishment of the IS-30 (GQA).
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