Sunday morning weather did not look very promising and in fact I left Tamworth with light rain falling and overcast skies.
Arriving at LK, conditions were a little better but not brilliant.
Matthew Minter and his brand new wife, Li Ling were staying overnight (following their electrical fire in their electrical car - but now repaired) and were ready to fly. Also on deck were Bob Emery, John Stewart and visiting member Greg Dennis from Mt Isa (Dennis had been on the safari with Ross Edwards). 18 yr old Belgian visitor Flynn had arrived on Friday night and had been checked on Saturday by Trevor West and was ready to fly solo.
Flynn had caused a bit of a stir the previous night when he failed to return after a walk to the kiosk at 6pm. After some seaches by Robin and Matthew, Flynn was finally found at 11pm. Seems he missed the turn off to the club and continued walking north along the fringe of the dam. He had managed to walk back to the kiosk and met up with some people who finally managed to find the Gliding Club.Fortunately he was none the worse for his experience and was keen to fly.
With Juho in the tug, operations commenced under the overcast conditions, however, Matthew Minter managed to stay aloft and when Flynn launched solo in the Puchatek, he too stayed aloft for an hour. This provoked Greg Dennis, John Stewart and Bob Emery to launch and with the weather improving, they were able to thermal away.
Flynn landed after about an hour but decided to try again but with some over development, the thermals began to shut down. John, Bob, Greg & Flynn all arrived back with minutes of each other. We then decided to halt ops for lunch.
After lunch, conditions looked a little better. John Stewart took another launch and I sent Flynn off in the Jantar Junior. About this time the weather really improved and by 4pm, the skies looked really good. Flynn landed after about an hour and Greg launched again in the junior for another 1 3/4 hrs.
We finished the day with 12 launches.
Peter Sheils
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