Sunday was a more windy day than Saturday, and rather more stable. The thermal cores were very small, and required very steep bank angles to stay in them. There were some hang gliders about, who seemed to have less difficulty staying in the cores than we did.
Flew the mozzie empty today but no one else was interested in flying cross country. I was going to try Bingara and back, but gave up just before Split Rock and came back - it was blue and difficult!
Allan Buttenshaw flew with Jim, and sent him solo for a soaring flight. On my way back to Keepit I saw the Puchatek a long way downwind - didn't think it was going to make it back to the field but it did.
Also flying were Bob Emery in the cirrus and John Clark in the Junior, Karen Sage flew again with Rob de Jarlais.
At the end of the day, Boris got a bit worried about the tug - the fuel pressure light was coming on, and it had been getting worse throughout the day. After phonecalls to John Wakefield and Ron Cameron, we decided we had better not risk it for any more flights.
We discovered that the fuel vents were blocked with wasp's nests and thought we had solved the problem - but it wasn't that simple! There are now covers for the vents and pitot - Tug pilots please use them. That goes for glider pilots as well. The mud wasps are out in force after the rain, so there is no excuse for not using the pitot covers every aircraft on the field!
"There wasn't a cover on it when I got it out" is NOT AN EXCUSE! If there isn't a cover, jolly well make one and use it!
Sorry - Sunday was supposed to be my day off!
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