Quiet on Monday and Tuesday - fortunately because after the frantic week last week I had 1/2 a million emails to deal with - or so it seemed. Took me most of Monday to catch up with them.
Internet connection dropped - you wouldn't think that was very important, but you wouldn't believe how much people go on about it if they cant connect. Spent most of the day on Tuesday restoring the right IP addresses to the ethernet docking station. Very frustrating - lots of more useful things I'd rather be doing.
Quite a flurry of activity on Wednesday - AFR for Miro Mikus, and two passenger flights. We also had a visit from Scott Lashmore and family who came from the Wahringa Model Aircraft Club. Phillipa went up for a flight with me in the Grob, but unfortunately I couldn't take Scott due to the weight limitations of the glider. Geoff Neely flew his DG400, and went up to Kaputar or thereabouts. I couldn't persuade him to put his log on the OLC. He said he got to 10,000ft! Garry towed.
On Thursday, Jacques Graells from Southern Cross came out to fly. Jacques came on a course with us last Christmas and went solo and now has his B certificate at southern cross. As it was very windy, and I wanted to see how he had progressed I flew with him. Miro flew the LS6. Geoff Neely towed. Conditions were not pleasant, and the thermals were very broken up in the strong wind, so we gave up and put everything away.
Today (Friday) Garry came out to fly the tug, in case I needed to fly with Jacques again, but as I didn't think that was necessary he flew his twin astir. I flew the tug. Jacques flew the Grob, and then had a flight with Garry in order to polish up his thermalling skills - but it went blue near the club, and hard to soar. Gerhard flew in his Jantar and stayed up for over 3 hours - he worked his way over to the clouds to the north of the strip and said it was better there. John Clark flew his DG800 and went up towards Rangarai.
Weather has been hot and the soaring season has well and truly arrived. So have the frogs in the toilets!
Anyone visiting the club and looking for a way to help - Please empty the bins!!!
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