Mothers Day weekend - by Robin Walker

To all those nice glider pilots that stayed home to look after their
mothers and wives.

Saturday was beautiful, sunny and blue with a few cumulus clouds in the distance towards the north east. There were 4 flights. Mathew Minter did the first flight in the Grob. John Stewart had over 2 hours in the LS7. Justin Smith flew in in his RV8 and did his annual flight review. Lachlan Knight bought out a friend for a passenger flight. Heights for the day 4500ft.

Sunday was another beautiful day with sunny blue skies. Blip maps said no cumulus and not as good as Saturday. Cannot always be right eh guys?

There was a passenger flight at 12.00 pm. Jay Anderson flew his LS6, I flew my Ventus BM, Geoff Neely flew the DG 400 HDB and Peter Shiels flew the Cirrus.

With cumulus to the north east towards Manilla we headed off towards them. Luckily for us they came halfway to meet us and we got to 7,000 ft and headed towards Barraba, then headed for Kaputar arriving at 8,000ft, then back to Split Rock for the run home.

Best day all week guys. Sorry you were not here but we enjoyed it for you.

See you all next weekend.
Robin (edited slightly by Jenny)