Since the last one Lauren Goddard and Bart Helleman have gone solo, Flyn Gryseels got his silver C and so did Paul Roche. Juho has become addicted to gliding again, and grabs the chance to soar if anyone else will fly the tug!
Mark Jones and Ken Williams from Newcastle Uni joined as full members, and brought along another couple of guys from their department to learn gliding.
Ray Whittaker from the UK did a couple of 300 km flights in the Junior - eat your heart out LS6 and LS7 pilots! John Clark has been flying his now no longer invisible glider.
Jaques Graels and Brian Kranze from Camden came back and did some more solo flying both now solo in the Grob.
Matthew Atkinson rejoined the club, and has done some flights in excess of 300 km - look on the OLC.
Greg Jensen from Sawtell on the coast came last week, and re-soloed too. He was a glider pilot at 18, 25 years or so ago! 1 week with Garry 3 years ago got him going again, and he only really needed an AFR this time around. Hoping to see him back again this week, but he's flooded in! Greg is keen to get into cross country flying now, and have a go at some competitions in the future.
There has been some really hot weather - late starts but climbs to 12000 ft late in the afternoon, followed by some rather cool weather and quite a bit of wind and rain.
I did my BFR for aeroplanes at Camden with Curtis aviation. This was a full on flying weekend as I had to fly from Lake Keepit to Camden by Jabiru, do the BFR, then fly to Cowra to go home, dodging storms to make it interesting. Then fly back to LKSC on the Monday morning. BFR was rather fun as I did it in a Citabria and got to do loops!
So far this week there has been quite a lot of rain and strong winds, so no flying until today. Today was very humid, but quite good lift. Overdeveloped in the afternoon with storms so we packed up about 4.30pm. Two "students" here this week - Cristy Rowe, getting back into it after a bread of 2 or 3 years, and Jeff Cornfoot, from Kingaroy, also getting back into gliding after a bit of a break. Jeff resoloed in the Grob today and completed an AFR, and then went "storm surfing". Showers and storms curtailed Cristy's training today, but roll on tomorrow!
We are now getting quite a number of pilots who are at the B and C certificate stage, and we really need to nurture them and get them through to cross country flying. Our first cross country weekend was a bit of a wash out due to bad weather, but we have another coming up this weekend, so I hope there is a good turn-out.
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