Another excellent day today.
Started off overcast, with an indifferent forecast. Dennis Stacey took off in his Citabria to fly to Port Macquarie, but came back because of cloud over the ranges. We took a drive to the outlanding paddock, and Denis said he thought it was OK.
By the time we got back to the club, the overcast had broken up and there was good cumulus, although it was not all that high. Phil De Joux took to the air with me in the Puchatek to do the dreaded outlanding check!. All went well, and Dennis retrieved us without incident. We did some thermalling practice and spins to get back down, as Dennis left again for PM and I was needed to fly the tug.
Hartmut Lautenschlager took two launches in the Junior, I managed to find him a thermal on the second one! Both Phil and Hartmut need to practice their thermalling skills - bank up more steeply! However they are in the best place to do it!
John Hoye and Geoff Neely will be the crew for tomorrow, and Garry Speight and Andrew Brumby on Sunday. Its warming up, and the thermals are good - time for all you early solo pilots to tick a few more boxes before the XC season kicks in.
Jenny
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