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From: Judith Smith
Date: Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 7:18 PM
Subject: Friday at the end of winter!
To: cgcmemlist@vicnet.net.au
What a lovely warm day we had on 06 today with quite a
small crew at the piecart. Our expected 11am AEF passenger
cancelled during the morning due to illness but the
12noon AEF passenger (who was "missing" from
the day's pie-cart schedule) did turn up ... so Ian
MacLachlan was treated by Kevin Rodda to
an ideal passenger flight in CQC during the best of
the day.
The day started with Arthur Mailey taking GYK off all
on his own since there was no immediate demand for it
and, anyway, other members were busy helping Alex
Horvath rig XOF which then took to the sky for what
must have been a very nice flight. Of course, Speedy
could not stand by and look at the clouds so he took
GSR out to play too and came back 3 hours 09 mins
later - the flight of the day obviously.
It stands to reason, these earlier flights required
the cooperative assistance of both TOJ and its pilot,
John Knox, who was replaced by Steve Bowtell who
brought Nathan as his camera crew. A sincere thankyou
to both John and Steve for taking care of our launch
needs for our 14 flights as we proceeded with member
flying for Bob Hainsworth and Charles Hoch, Neil
Schaefer, Shane Tuck, John Nestor not to mention a
round of annual checks, for Lindsay Mitchell and for
Mike Grady, this time. The day finished with CQC being
recalled to the flight line so Arthur could take Anne
Bradley for a hangar flight.
Any break while gliders were occupied was filled with
members catching up with each other's travels, etc.
Lindsay reminded us all not to forget the AGM
tomorrow night, so you have been warned .
I might mention that John Ashford's efforts to rectify
GYK's radio woes have been wonderfully effective.
GYK's calls were loud and clear again. Another
thankyou to you, John and a final thanks to Barry
McCarthy for his patience as our L2 again today.
Just after 15.30 we had retrieved CQC and it was being
packed away while paper work was done so we had an
early day for once. A reference to my waste paper
basket indicated that we were two flights short of
last week's tally but it was a much more pleasant day
for those of us sitting about enjoying the wait for a
glider. Given the forecast, I can certainly recommend
it to anyone contemplating flying tomorrow.
Judith, on behalf of the Friday crew.
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