Today was a beautiful autumn day. Forecast temp about 27 degrees.
I arrived to find only John Stewart at the Club wishing to fly. No students on site, no check flights and no joy flights booked in. It appeared that I could get the Cirrus out for myself. Boris was filling in as tug pilot for Charlie Zspitalek.
Paul Harrington (& Geisla) from Airlie Beach (Whitsundays) had arrived yesterday in their Zimango on their way home from a trip to SA, Victoria etc. They were content to rest and not fly today. They will leave on Monday for a visit to Macca at Tyagrah.
Being no haste to commit aviation, we decided to start the day with a leisurely morning tea. Geoff Neeley then arrived but only to do some maintenance on his DG400.
Then John Clark and Geraldine arrived. John was keen to fly the Junior.
Then Ray Tilley and Marga arrived. They are new members who are in the process of moving from Perth to Armidale and have an ASW27 already in a trailer on site here at Keepit (and ready to occupy a spot in the new hangars). Ray is keen to assist with form 2 type work when he settles in and I am sure we will welcome him with open arms. I showed him around the Club's fleet (although he has been here not lon
g ago.)
Paul Hunt (who had flown yesterday arrived but following some celebrating with the Hang Gliding people at their end of Comps night at Manilla last night, decided he would not fly again today.
With cumulus in the distance but blue sky overhead, no one was in a hurry to launch. We decided to launch after lunch.
First launch was not until well after 2pm. It was a little scratchy in the blue at first but the 3 of us stayed up with out any difficulty and by 3.15 PM the cumulus was forming near the Lake. We all ended up getting to cloud base at 7800' with patches of good to strong lift (<8kts)>
To sum up - a really nice autumn day - pity there weren't more people there to enjoy it!
Regards
Peter Sheils
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