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From: Mike
McCluskey
Date:
Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 9:03 AM
Subject:
Yes we're flying
Two
aircraft are di'd and about to be towed out.
We
have patches of blue & plenty of cloud.
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That was
email #1 from (today's duty Air Experience Instructor)
Mike McCluskey ... accompanied by this photo
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and this
was Mike's email #2 ...
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From: Mike
McCluskey
Date:
Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:13 AM
Subject:
we're NOT flying
The
heavens have opened up so unfortunately we're packing up
for the day.
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... and
this is what had transpired between emails ...
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Fairly
heavy rain fell for around and hour (very much immediately
around the airfield area and back to Caboolture ... there
was still large areas of blue sky out towards Donnybrook
right throughout the YCAB downpour). It however left the
runway surrounds looking very ordinary ...
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Can
you guess what this is?
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It is the back of
(today's duty Tug Pilot) Mike Grady's shirt after he had a
little trouble lining up the combination on the lock to
get SPA back in its hangar and out of the rain ... once we
had the tug back inside there was lots of wiping down to
be done by Mike ...
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...
assisted by Lynette McCarthy ...
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A
"royal wave" from (today's Duty Instructor)
Barry McCarthy in the wet weather gear that he had donned
to help Mike Grady wrestle with the lock during the
downpour.
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And guess
who got the blame for bringing the rain with him ...
(today's rostered Instructor) John Clayton who arrived
during the downpour only to admit that the weather looked
fine all the way up from Brisbane Southside until he
passed the Morayfield exit.
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When
you are affectionately known as "JC", surely you
can do something about the weather?
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Passing
the twin-BP's on the way back to Brisbane at around 11:00
am ... the skies looked a lot better and reinforced just
how "local to YCAB" the heavy rain had been this
morning. A disappointing result for a day that had looked
much more promising than Friday or Saturday (days which
provided some good gliding conditions despite the
forecasted rain and the discouraging early morning skies)
... but took little time to become a complete
wash-out.
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