Hi all

 

Today’s crew consisted of yours truly as AEI, David Higgs as L2, Karl Bodi was pulling into the skies and Mick Moloney who was standing in as Duty Pilot for the day (thanks for stepping in Mick).

 

I arrived at the field to find our sole student for the day (Rory Rearden) had already unwrapped the IS-30 (thanks Rory!) … that , coupled with two AEF’s booked for the morning, meant we had a quorum to fly.

 

Our only hope was that the forecasted rain and storm would hold off long enough to get our AEF and student flights completed.

 

After a rather leisurely start to the day, the first flight was in the air at 10:40am with Rory and David.

 

My first AEI arrived at 11am ... I took the teenage son of an ex French military jet pilot up for what turned out to be flight of the day at 30 mins. 

 

Small pockets of lift were about however, by late morning, conditions were starting to look worse.

 

A second AEF flight (David Caruana) shortly after midday was also a hangar flight for the IS-30 as conditions continued to deteriorate. 

 

Air Experience Flight passenger David Caruana in the IS-30.

 

As an existing RA Aus pilot, David had a ball (albeit 25 mins) and thoroughly enjoyed discovering that rudder pedals do actually come in handy when turning.

 

Whilst I was entertaining our guests, David Higgs was busy putting Rory through his paces with a series of ‘rope breaks’ and some “unexpected” instructor-induced sink whilst in the circuit … no doubt Rory is well on his way to Solo.

 

The sixth and last flight landed under very dark skies at 1:30pm ... that's when we decided to pack up before the forecast rains hit us.

 

Wrap-up time as the weather deteriorates rapidly.

 

Best regards,