A very quiet day at the club. Tim Carr was around supervising the hangar construction but John Trezise didn't turn up until about 11 am. I did some office work, and Boris went to Tamworth to organise a letter from CASA to validate his Australian hours flown, and to do a bit of shopping.
Just when I thought I'd be able to catch up on all the paperwork, John Trezise turned up so I had to go flying after all! After doing a bit about Macready theory and thermal joining techniques, we started to get the Puchatek out. I think I must be going completely mad - I looked in the hangar for the motor bikes and could only see two. Couldn't find the back seat cushion for the Puchatek either! Went riding up and down the runway looking for the third bike and found the towing gear for the Grob in the Bus, which was a bonus! Went back the hangar and there was the third bike - it had been there all along! Made a few phone calls to try and track down the seat cushion, and then realised who the idiot was that had taken it out of the glider and hidden it. Me of course! I had used it for my hangar flight in the Junior on Friday and forgotten to put it back!
The day improved markedly in the afternoon, and I had a few good flights with John, who settled back into it after the first one or two. There is a hang gliding competition on at Mt Borah, and several flew over the field so we had to keep a good look out. One landed on our airstrip - Alistair Bramwell-Davies, who I used to know from hang gliding days. I was going to offer him a beer, but his retrieve turned up so quickly he didn't have time.
I think it would have been a hard day for the hang gliders to get away from the hill at Mt Borah, as the thermals were quite a long way apart, and the wind very light and variable.
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