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Saturday
Flying Report
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30-Mar-13
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From: David
Guzzwell
Date:
Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 10:03 AM
Subject:
Flying report, Saturday 30th March 2013
To:
members@glidingcaboolture.org.au
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Hi
all,
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Saturday's
flying started out rather slowly. Arrival at the
airfield to 8/8ths, dark, low-level cloud and visible rain
in all directions had me believing that I was cursed. It
seemed that, out of the last half dozen or so days I had
been rostered as Duty Pilot we had cancelled flying due to
weather or tug unavailability or some such issue, and this
weekend was only going to reinforce that notion.
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David Higgs, Rupert Perry
(back seat training) and Lindsay Mitchell.
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However,
the early arrival of new student and prospective member from
Warwick; Genevieve Canoy, as well as Theo Mus, Alan Graham, Rupert Perry
and David Crocker strengthened our collective resolve and we
prepared aircraft to fly.
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Karl
Bodi and Geneveive Canoy - we thought they were beetroot
stains from the salad roll!
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By
9:30 am the skies were lifting and the elusive blue had been
spotted. We made our way to runway 12 where we stayed
for the day. Flights were mostly between 15 and 25
minutes as you might expect, however Lindsay managed to find
some smooth air with the IS28 to extend to 28 minutes (if I
remember correctly) making flight of the day.
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Late
in the afternoon the rain clouds cleared away leaving just a
few streamers of high level cirrus. It was too little
too late for any thermal generation though and flights
stayed relatively short.
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Given
that I didn't make a copy of the flight sheet for myself, I
can't recall the totals for the day other than that we
managed 12 launches, which was quite an achievement given
the day's start.
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Thanks
to all the optimists and the balance of the Duty Crew (David
Higgs, Steve Bowtell, Kevin Rodda and Karl Bodi), and also to Chris Guy for helping out.
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Do
you remember Chris Guy?
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Cheers,
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David
Guzzwell
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