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Gloomy
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28-Jun-15
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With a
bright sunny sky in the east and the radio in the car
forecasting "a cloudy day with some chance of
rain late in the day", I was feeling some
optimism about the potential for gliding today as I
headed to Caboolture from Brisbane's north side early
this morning.
However
that all changed when, virtually "out of the
blue", rain drops started to hit the windshield
just short of the Bribie Island interchange at 7:20 am
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The next
couple of minutes saw the raindrops develop into a
heavy shower and the view from the inter-change bridge
showed quite heavy rain back across to the airfield.
There was however a "pot of gold" at the end
of the rainbow ... the storm had passed through to the
west, a pelican was soaring over the car park at
Maccas and the McCafe coffee was
excellent!
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The
airfield had however been left fairly wet and
uninviting ...
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Our Duty
Instructor (Peter Stephenson) arrived in style in his
Super Ximango motorglider ...
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The sun
tried its hardest to come out (several times) ...
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But
alas, by 9:30 Peter had to call off gliding operations
for the day ...
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From: Peter
Stephenson
Date:
Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 9:33 AM
Subject:
Sunday 28th ops cancelled
To:
cgcmem@mailmanlist.net.au
Sad
to say that we have full crew waiting but the weather
is not cooperating.
Peter S
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That
left Neil Schaefer, Peter Stephenson and Tony Sorensen
doing their best impersonations of glum, glummer an
glummest!
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At
around 10:30 am there was a big enough break in the
weather for Peter to make a dash for his hangar at
Redcliffe.
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And
sadly, that brought our club gliding operations to a close for the
2014/15 Financial Year.
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Regards,
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Kevin
Rodda
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AEI
and DUTY PILOT
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