Gen Francis and Alan Murdoch visiting from the UK. John Hoye came out to say g'day as they are from his club in Kent. Despite a very ordinary forecast, the day turned out to be excellent, although there were showers around. Alan and Gen had check and orientation flights with myself and John in the Twin Astir, then they both flew the Junior for a bit.
After doing an AFR, I could not resist doing a hangar flight in the Twin. Boris towed me into a booming thermal over the rubbish dump. I got off at 1100 ft and took the average 9.5-10 kt thermal straight to cloudbase at about 8000ft.
As it was only supposed to be a hangar flight, I just flew off to Mt Borah and back and landed.
Alan and Gen were impressed with our conditions compared to what they are used to in the UK!
