Sunday dawned cold and crisp. Blue skies above and fine weather forecast.
The reality, however, was that some dense high level cloud came from the west, sufficient to prevent the ground to warm sufficiently for themal activity of any note.
There were a few members in attendance, including; Ray & Margaret Tilley, Gerhard Stuck, Matthew Minter (& Lee Ling?). Charlie Szpitalek travelled from Walcha to drive the tug. Jim Hackett was getting into a taxi as I pulled up and left to return to Cairns. He had been at the Club last week and managed to get his ASH26M out of the trailer, rigged and into the new hangar.
Saturday had seen better weather with several soaring flights in excess of 2 hours.
Trevor West who had flown yesterday, turned up again, but only to complete derigging his glider. Seems that on the Saturday, he was unable to detach the tailplane and returned today with a larger sledge hammer (just joking! - with Gerhard's assistance they managed to find the cause of the mysterious problem.without resorting to violence). Trevor is off shortly on a European trip (aren't we all??) and wont be back until a few days prior to the Queensland comps.
Meanwhile back at Keepit, no one was overly keen to fly. Ray and Marga decided to head back to the (c)hills of Armidale. Matthew Minter decided to undergo his Annual Flight Review and we got the Puchatek (GKD) out to the flight line.
We had 2 flights and then Matthew took a high tow (accompanied by Lee Ling) to finish the day.
The high cloud thinned out late in the afternoon and the sun shone through, however, it was too late to generate any lift.
Bring on the spring!!
Peter Sheils
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