Lovely day , a little on the cool side with the wind coming from the S/E.
The only person to be found at the 'Office ' was Jenny and she was preparing to fly the Jabiru to Cowra .
Paul Hunt soon arrived followed by Garry S.Christian L and Bob Emery.
We gave the Jabiru a wash , Jenny departed and made Cowra around 13.30
30 minutes later , a Motor Grob arrived ,piloted by Paul Harrington and his wife/partner Geezel . They had left Temora in the early morning and had a good run at 9500' to LKSC.They were overnighting and then onto the Whitsundays , oh well !!.
Bob launched from 14 and when the others were ready to launch the wind had slowed to a zephyr and launched from 32 .
I believe Bob stayed local and the others went South and then to Gunnedah and across to Manilla , all blue sky .
Paul Hunt went to Mt Borah in the Jantar to see his H/gliding mates and found most of them on the 'bomb out' sites.
During all this we could here Bruce Taylor on the radio indicating 6-8 Kt climbs to 8,000' + up in the hills , Kentucky way . [he always gets those sort of climbs ! ].
I had a friend come out for a first flight , after releasing we climbed about 300 ' and then 8kts all the way down to the ground . 2nd flight found lift and went to 6,000' , phew!.
Thanks to Boris for his tugging and I suspect may be the last tow I will get from him. He leaves Friday , 14th for Argentina. [that went quick]. Plans are underway for a send off to him - Jenny may have details.
Thanks, Vic. H.
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Christian and I (Cirrus and Twin Astir) went rather further west than Peter thought. This time I was able to keep Christian in sight most of the time, so I got some advantage from him as well as vice versa.
We got to Mullaley in the blue at about 30 km/hr. Very character building! No thermal was too weak to circle in. Just west of Gunnedah we lost 3000 ft in about 5 minutes. Then we took about 30 minutes to get up again. The hills were NOT working.
My best climb was 4 knots for a minute or two, and my best height 6700.
After Mullaley, having heard Bruce’s reports of better conditions east of Manilla, we headed for Kingstown. Unfortunately, rates of climb went negative around Jack Gainey’s strip, and we couldn’t even make Manilla.
My main plan was to try out my new turbulator tape. I could not be sure whether it was effective or not.
Garry
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