A good day with plenty of cumulus about.
Robin Walker and Steve Hedley arrived at the club sometime last night, but were nowhere to be seen in the morning. It turned out they were doing something to the engine of the Nimbus.
Garry Speight offered to come out and help me get current winch launching again. We spent the morning cleaning and greasing the winch and setting it up. When it came to launching, the clouds were looking good. Since Garry wanted to do some soaring in his Twin Astir, I launched him on the winch. He got away first go, and flew around for a couple of hours. He said he had a struggle for the first 40 minutes, but then was able to climb to 6500 feet! Steve Hedley manage to get the motor in the nimbus going and launched before Garry and had a good soaring flight.
When he landed, we swapped places and I did three launches in the Twin Astir. Steve Hedley did the rope retrieving, wing running and kangaroo scaring. Even at 4.30 in the afternoon I was able to maintain height over the caravan park while waiting for the rope to be towed back!
Geoff Neely came out to make sure all was ready for the weekend winch course, as he had agreed to be winch driver. He and Garry walked the rope to make sure there were no dodgy bits.
Thanks for the help guys. This winch launching is not so bad after all!
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