Friday, January 4, 2008

4 January 08

Blowing a gale again today, so no flying.

Christian Linnet was on the Chamberlain tractor until past nine o' clock last night - thanks Christian! However there was still heaps more to do so Boris flew the tractors today instead of the tug. He has slashed runways 20, 27 and 24 with the big tractor and then slashed around the cabins with the Deutz. The grass is growing so quickly we can barely keep up with it. The area either side of runway 32-14 that Miro slashed last week has already grown long again!

Gerhard has finished the installation of the new xcom radio in the Puchatek - he spent ages on this job, and it is looking and sounding really good. Thanks for all the work Gerhard. It seems like a really good radio. The only thing left is to install better PTT switches - but the old ones are working OK for the time being. It would be nice if we could find some decent hand grips for the sticks especially the front one - the students do tend hold onto it like grim death!

John Clark made a cable for downloading the trace out of a flarm - the one we were using went missing.

If anyone can source a 9 pin serial cable with a male plug one end and a female the other, we need one for connecting loggers to the flight centre computer. They seem to be impossible to get in Tamworth.

The catch has broken on the wing walker for the Junior, so if anyone needs a little job over the weekend, they could install a new one. Actually I think two catches would work better!

I am curious to know if anyone reads all this stuff I write, so I have tried to install a bit of software to track how many people visit. Don't quite know if it will work, or if I will understand it if it does.

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