Thursday 23 August

Quite a lot of club members around today. Geoff Sim and Ian Barraclough working on SI, Geoff Neely working on HDB, Steve Hedley & Julie and Ross Edwards rigging the nimbus. Tim Carr and I doing instructor training with Vic, and Chris Carr working on something - not sure what. Pilot officer Speight was on had to do the necessary with the tug.

It was very windy, but more or less down runway 14, we had a brief shower, overcast and no lift, but not particularly cold. Tim and I both assessed Vic for his AFR and I am afraid he failed dismally both times. We wouldn't let him fly solo without a fair bit of remedial training!

Ordinary conditions, but it was a good day nevertheless with all the congenial company!

Same again tomorrow but I will put the bread machine on in the morning, hot bread for lunch. I have run out of butter tho.

Tuggies Ball on Saturday night appears to be a sell out, so much so that there will be a non-tuggies ball for the left overs! Looks like being an excellent weekend.

Jenny

Hello Everyone

Well it has been a bit quiet here this week so far, flying wise, but there seems to have been a lot of office work to do.

While I was away for the weekend we had a problem with the ETug, but it was fixed by Sunday, and a few launches were done.

On Monday Ian Barraclough towed Phil Anderton up in the Junior using MIE, his 185, so both of them could stay current.

On Tuesday Ian flew the ASH SI for a couple of hours, and went up to Kaputar, but had to start the engine to be sure of getting back.

Today was a warm but windy day - no flying but Dave Turner is here doing the Form 2 on the hornet.

The frogs are back in the toilet, so the weather must be warming up!

Tomorrow, if there is not too much wind, Phil Anderton is going to come out with his spray gear and we are going to spray the Patterson's curse on the airfield before it gets to groundloop inducing height. It is growing quite vigorously at the moment. Phil thinks it won't take long to do.

Jenny