While I was flying yesterday, Boris and Christian went water skiing again, and this time success! Boris was able to stay up.
During the day the front release on the Puchatek had come off in the student's hand, and the tug went wrong again! More fuel problems - the carburettor overflowed.
Rob de Jarlais and Matthew Minter ran a winch operation, Jim Staniforth drove the winch. Thanks Jim
John Wakefield came out and worked on it most of the day, with Boris as the apprentice. They found that some more fuel lines were only finger tight. They could not find any problem with the carby, so they cleaned it and put it back, and it's working again. The fuel pressure is much better than it was too!
While they were doing that, Gerhard and I repaired the Puchatek. Gerhard has a very bad back at the moment, so I did the crawling around under his instructions. We were able to use the release cable from the wreck, but we had to cut out a frayed bit and re swage it next to the handle. They seem to have a habit of failing there.
Both tug and training glider were ready for action again on Monday.
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