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Industrious
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31-Aug-14 |
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From: Garrett
Russell
Date:
Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 8:15 AM
Subject:
Industrious Sunday at Caboolture
To:
cgcmem@mailmanlist.net.au |
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might think that 14 flights from a day when 14
members were at the airfield is a poor result. |
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fact it was a great result because five of those
members, although on the airfield all day until
close to sunset, did not come within coo-ee of the
flight line. Instead Arthur Mailey, Shane Tuck, Bob
Hainsworth, Eric Dickeson and Karl Bodi spent the
whole day constructing the new Pie Cart on the
platform donated by Lindsay Mitchell. The rest of us
who were there to fly salute the hard work of this
great team. |
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The
Pie Cart construction team were well at it by the
time the flyers left the tie down area for the day.
Arthur Mailey, Shane Tuck, Bob Hainsworth, Eric
Dickeson and Karl Bodi |
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The
flyers were duty crew Steve Bowtell, Tony Esler,
Mike McCluskey and Alan Graham, under the leadership
of Mick Moloney - supplemented by Tony Sorensen,
Jonathan Manifold, Speedy Gonsalves and your humble
reporter. We also had the pleasure of welcoming Rob
Dejarlais, visiting from Lake Keepit and likely to
be a regular YCAB flyer for the next month or so. |
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We
spent the whole day on RWY12 with GYK, CQC, GJY and
Kookaburra Airlines' GLM, hoping for lift but mostly
having to settle for something less in the blue
conditions. A great day for sitting in the last of
the winter sun, even if most flights were on the
short side, as indicated by CQC's first launch: a
passenger flight to 4,500 feet from which our AEI
Mike struggled to get 27 minutes. |
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However
there were bright spots. With his AEF duties done,
Mike took off in the Club Libelle at about one
thirty and landed just before three to score the
club's flight of the day at 1:25. Equally impressive
was 50 minutes logged in the Blanik for visitor
Rob's check flight with Steve Bowtell. At the same
time, the best The IS-28 could manage for the day
was 33 minutes in my hands - but like the AEF, with
a fairly heavy passenger in front. At least that is
Mike's and my story and we're sticking to it. And we
can back it up by reporting that "50
minute" Rob and Alan Graham could only manage
18 minutes when they shared a flight in CQC. |
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The
Blanik's main duty for the day was training flights
with Jonathan and Mick, culminating in Jonathan's
first solo on type. Congratulations Jonathan! |
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Jonathan
Manifold taking his first Blanik solo |
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Meanwhile
Kookaburra Airlines maintained a high frequency
flight service with Alan Graham, Tony Sorensen and
myself in the left hand seat. |
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Kookaburra
Airlines welcomes you aboard! |
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The
day's flight statistics:
GYK
5 flights 1:52
CQC
4 flights 1:28
GJY
1 flight 1:25
GLM
4 flights 1:05 |
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With
the sea breeze making flights even shorter, the
flyers declared it beer o'clock after a final
landing at 15:25. |
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delivered soft drinks to the construction team and
they were still working when I left the airfield. A
great display of the club spirit that keeps all of
us flying! |
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The
new Pie Cart taking shape towards the end of the
day, thanks to the hard work of Arthur Mailey, Shane
Tuck, Eric Dickeson, Bob Hainsworth and Karl Bodi |
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| Sent
from my iPad, |
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| Garrett
Russell |
