Well last week with John Hoye's (paddock rated tuggie) help we managed to achieve outlanding checks for both Alan Monroe, a visiting pilot from central coast, and David Seib, now living in Manilla. Gerhard was at the club and helped out with Alan's paddock landing, and I flew with Dave Sieb into the paddock. I'm always quite relieved when we get out again and back to Keepit! I am now trying to encourage David to tick the boxes and get his silver badge, but he may just skip that and go straight for a 300 km. For any that don't know, Dave is a very successful hang glider pilot. Phil De Joux continued his progress and was transitioned into the Jantar Standard. He is planning to return in November to do some more flying.
After two days of rain, and a lot of mowing of runway 14 to make it safe, we had some quite good flying conditions, with reasonable soaring opportunities, however cross country was still a bit of a challenge.
Flew home last weekend, back on Monday morning - nice easy trip with brilliant sunshine. Beautiful power flying weather.
Geoff Sim has taken to the air again, arriving last week in his Lancair after having his cast removed. He is still sporting a limp, but he is on the mend after breaking his leg riding a motorbike in the outback.
Long weekend coming up, and I will be standing in for Vic on Saturday, and flying the tug on Sunday. Hoping to get the AFRs etc out of the way early in the morning, so we can all fly a task later on. Anyone want to go XC with me in the Grob on Saturday? There is an air experience flight booked in for Saturday, so would appreciate it if one of our AEIS could do the honours.
Don't get left behind, the good soaring weather is only just around the corner!
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