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"Trick
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31-Oct-14 |
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From: Garrett
Russell
Date:
Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 6:47 PM
Subject:
Trick or Treat Friday at CGC
To:
cgcmem@mailmanlist.net.au
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Halloween
was a rather apt day for our last Friday of flying
this month because it was trick or treat all day.
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The
trickery started with the morning sky, which
alternated between being monstrously forboding (as in
8/8 overcast) and pixie-ishly promising (nice dark
bottom Cu and sunny patches). This went on all through
our preparations and confused everyone at the tie down
lines so much that we decided against any private
single seaters but ended up towing the 28 and Club
Libelle out to RWY30 for a first launch at 0930.
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Everyone
was Duty Instructor Barry McCarthy, Tuggie Karl Bodi,
and Friday regulars John Nestor, Judith Smith, Arthur
Mailey, Bob Hainsworth and Charles Hoch, plus me. The
first launch was John on the hunt for his second C
Certificate hour.
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Second
launch was me in the Libelle - the entire fleet of
available gliders in the air before 10 o’clock!
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The
two gliders thermalled together, then separately,
before John came down after a lot of hard work just 9
minutes short of the hour. It’s a pity he couldn’t
hang on those few minutes more because just as he
landed I got my best ever single Caboolture climb,
straight to cloud base and the airspace ceiling, then
avoiding lift to get the glider back for others to
use. At 1:11 it turned out to be the flight of the
day.
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Second
best went to Bob, also in the Libelle, just a minute
behind at 1:10 (and such hard work that he actually
fell asleep in his chair at the hangar drinks session
- the day’s biggest pity was that no one was fast
enough with a camera ;-)
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Other
flights in CQC were 46 minutes for Arthur and Barry,
38 minutes for Judith and Charles, 20 minutes for
post-work arrivals Steve and Nathan Bowtell, and a 15
minute last flight for Bob and Charles. That was at
about two o’clock, when the sea breeze and big blue
hole over the airfield convinced us we would all be
better off heading home to await the hordes of trick
or treating neighbourhood kids tonight.
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Regards,
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Garrett
Russell
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for the
Friday Crew
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