Garry Speight came out to assist with the instructing as we had quite a few student pilots to look after. However we made two of them sick, and the rest were solo so he ended up with not a lot to do.
It was quite a reasonable soaring day. Peter Robinson shared the Junior with Michael Murphy, Max flew with Garry in the Twin, and I flew with Ian and William in the Puchatek. After three flights in the Puchatek, William had got it together again (he hadn't flown for 8 months) and I sent him solo. He had 25 minutes soaring and did an excellent landing - another ex hang-glider pilot. Actually it wasn't really his first solo, as he had done one in 1982 at Tocumwal.
I flew with Ian Gostelow a couple of times. He is an ex GA pilot, so can handle the aircraft OK, but had never really done any thermalling. Unfortunately I managed to make him feel sick, and he spent the rest of the day on the tractor! Meanwhile Garry had managed to make Max feel sick and he spent the rest of the day retrieving gliders and running wings!
We had a ground loop incident during the day, due to the very long grass on parts of the strip. Getting the grass mowed is really getting to be a high priority, but you can't do it when the strip is boggy. Fortunately the glider was not damaged, and neither was the pilot.
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