Friday 30 October

No flying on Thursday - pity because the sky looked fantastic for most of the day. Todd came out to do more work on the irrigation systems and Juho helped. I tried to catch up on emails and tidy up the hangar a bit. All the work on the irrigation system must have worked because in the late afternoon the heavens opened and we had a deluge. Very heavy rain - and the flight centre roof is leaking again - just when I thought we had solved that problem. Will have to get up on the roof and clear out the gutters again. Juho's caravan has been leaking too, and has been invaded by frogs.

On Thursday evening Graham and Marie Davis from Grafton club turned up with a Club Libelle to do some flying. We put the wings on on Friday morning. It was still very damp after the rain the previous day - the forecast was a bit indifferent, with storms forecast for the afternoon.

Graham got into the air by about 12.15 and landed again about 3 pm before the rain started again. Another heavy shower. While soarable, it was not much of a day for cross country. Meanwhile Ken Flower came out and continued my education in the G109. I certainly feel a lot more comfortable in it now, and seem to have mastered the landings - which are easy compared with the take offs!! I didn't actually fly it solo as the bad weather was coming in, but would have felt ok to do so, and Ken was OK for me to do so too. Flying it does grow on you.

After that, we went through each other's glider pilot certificate application, took photos and got them in the mail. Thank you Ken for spending the time to go through this and all the G109 stuff.