I've been a bit slack with publishing the news lately.
The precompetition week featured very ordinary weather, but this did mean that lots of competition preparation got done. On Monday Bernie, my student who didn't turn up on Friday came - but unfortunately I had to fly the tug. We managed three circuits with Garry flying the tug, but then he had to fly with our Japanese vistor Mr Iwata in the twin Astir.
I flew the Callair for the first time on Monday with a glider on the back! No problems - it is quite nice to fly even though it does not climb out as fast as the Pawnee. The tail wheel works properly which is a real bonus. The Callair was supposed to fly away for its 100 hourly on Monday afternoon, but the weather on the coast was no good, so it stayed.
TNE (Pawnee) was due to come up from Bathurst, and CUR (Pawnee with V8 car engine) was due to come back from Kingaroy, but both were held up by the weather. Naturally the weather at Lake Keepit was OK on Tuesday, so we used the Callair again on its last day of maintenance release.
TNE arrived on Tuesday afternoon so we had a tug for the rest of the week - however the weather was very poor.
Boris still had not got his licence from CASA and was getting quite worried about it.
During the week I managed to finish curtains in Room 12 in the Club house and make a canopy cover for my glider, and also install the flarm. At the last minute we even made the trailer usable!
Next installment - the competition!
