Lots of people around the club today - once again there was a terrible forecast. Once again, it failed to eventuate.
The wind was about 5 to 10 kts straight up runway 32, and although conditions were overcast, there was cumulus, and soaring flights were possible.
My student didn't show up today - maybe I worked him too hard yesterday! (9 flights). Steve Hedley flew with Tadashi Yoshida in the Nimbus, and they stayed up for about three hours I think. Not sure where they went. Garry had a couple of flights with Mr Iwata in the twin astir.
Chris Carr came out and took the side off the office computer to find out what sort of memory it had. It was full of cobwebs! We cleaned these out, took out and re-installed the memory, changed a setting or two in the bios and Hey Presto! the computer is now using all the installed memory, and is working much faster. I would like to get more memory for it, but will see how it goes for now.
Geoff Neely did the towing today - we have had another setback with CASA processing Boris's licence - just when we thought they were about to issue it. Despite his having been issued an ASIC, they do not believe he is who he says he is and say they must check with officials in Argentina. They must think that we are a hotbed of terrorism not a gliding club! Boris is very worried about it, but he is helping out at the club as much as he can.
My Jabiru is back in the air again, after an extensive service. Many thanks to John Wakefield. It is really running well now. I managed to fly home on Saturday morning, despite another terrible forecast. It wasn't as bad as they said. I was able to go around the showers, and over the top of the scattered low cloud. By the time I reached Cowra the cloudbase had lifted to 800 ft AGL - no problems getting in.
See you all next week for the preparation for the comps!
Jenny
