Wedensday 9th April

Nigel went home today, so Miro, John and Ewan were the only takers. Geoff Neely came out to tow for us.

All the weather forecasts and blipmaps indicated a pretty ordinary day, so Ewan decided to go back to Sydney - he had already stayed longer than he intended! Miro declared that he would fly whatever the weather, even if there were no thermals at all!

We got the grob out to give John Tresize his A certificate test flight - it was the first time he had flown with the altimeter covered. We also got the Junior out for John to fly afterwards. Dave Sieb turned up with his friend Gabor Sipos, another hang-glider pilot interested in learning to fly sailplanes. A bit later on two more hang glider pilot friend's of Dave's came along also - Katharina and Tigran.

Miro was first to launch, and last to land. I think he was in the air for about four hours, but he said he didn't go very far. I flew with John in the Grob - plenty of lift everywhere - he just can't bear to pass it up! No problems, so I sent him off to fly the Junior.

I next flew with Gabor - who was worried that he might be airsick. He had done a bit of three axis flying in the dragonfly (hang glider tug) but not a lot. He did extremely well, and his turn co-ordination was excellent. He flew so well that I had no hesitation in letting him fly the circuit and do the landing - at least most of it. He was starting to feel sick by the end of the 40 minute flight, but managed to hold it together!

Dave Sieb couldn't resist pulling out the Jantar, once he saw that we were staying up and surprised Geoff by releasing at about 1200ft and climbing out. He had some good flying and cruised over to Mt Borah and back, and experiemented with flying the Jantar fast! It does go very fast!

John had a good soaring flight in the Junior - nearly two hours.

I flew with Katharina and Tigran, but by that time the lift was not so good and we only managed half an hour each.

For a day with such a poor forecast, we had quite a busy day, and some good soaring!