Monday Tuesday and Wednesday, 4,5,6 Feb

On Monday I left Cowra to fly back to Lake Keepit in my Jabiru, but the rain showers got worse and worse, and I had to turn back. Once back on the ground at Cowra, I called Geoff Sim at LKSC to see what the weather was doing there. Not much good, so I drove back to work - got to Gunnedah about 3.00pm

Fortunatley Boris looked after the visitors, and no one was too concerned about my absence since it rained heaps during the day.

Tuesday and Wednesday there was rain rain and yet more rain. I have been baking bread to cheer people up! Brian Du Rieu, a club member who lives in Luxembourg was visiting, but gave up and went back to Sydney. However my student pilots are all hanging in, waiting for the rain to stop.

We managed on flight this morning (Wednesday) with a storm just to the east of the field. It seemed to be fairly close, and it rumbled a bit, but I thought it was going to miss us. Boris thought we could manage a couple of tows so we gave it a go. Peter Robinson was the lucky pilot. He did his A certificate here last December, returned to England and did some more gliding at his own club, and now has 17 solos. The flight was quite smooth, but the storm did look very close. When we saw the tug land and head straight back to the hangar, we thought we had better do the same. Just about managed to get everything put away before the rain started, but we were trapped in the glider hangar in a deluge unwilling to get soaked walking back to the flight centre.

Later in the day, we moved the Junior into the tug hangar to install the new vario. Impossible to work on gliders in the glider hangars because the dirt floors are a sea of mud!