From Barry McCarthy's email report on today's gliding operations at Caboolture ...

“Oh what a feeling”!    

It was great to see blue sky, no rain and a group of CGC Members “straining at the bit” to just into the sky AND so we did with a steady 5/8 knot S/E breeze blowing it was off to runway 12 which had been mown by the Aero Club.

L2 for the day was Barry McCarthy, AEI Mick Maloney, “Tuggies” Mike Grady & Peter John with Lynette McCarthy keeping things “moving along” as Duty Pilot.

Our two flyable aircraft IKW, GJY and Kevin Rodda’s GRV were used and in total we managed fourteen (14) flights in total. Not a great deal of useable lift around for most of the day but Chris Weir did manage 42 minutes in the Club Libelle with the flight of the day achieved by Kevin Rodda in his Ka6 at 1 hour 36 minutes.

“Speedy” Gonzales did bring out that beautify little “Gal” of his but on his first attempt to get into the air a spark plug problem sent him back to his hanger. L

Much was achieved during the day with Peter John, Eric Dickenson and Karl Bodi successfully completing Annual Checks….Mick Maloney gave our one AEI Passenger, Linda Carlson, an enjoyable flight…Chris Weir and Karl Bodi both had good flights in the Club Libelle with Alex Horvath and Dan Kershaw continuing their Student training in the Twin Astir.

Statistics for the day:-

IKW      3hours 19 minutes  (9 flights)

GJY       1 hour 27 minutes   (3 flights)

GRV     1 hour 58 minutes   (2 flights)

Lynette signed-up a NEW MEMBER…….so Mark Longden welcome to CGC.

Remember we are flying MONDAY (tomorrow)…….so if you are at a “loose end” come up to Cabooltue, get into the air and support your Club.

Safe flying.

Barry Mc on behalf of today’s Crew.