Sunday Report
Sunday
The duty team was met in the Worcester Valley with snow on the mountains, 8 degrees on the ground with a light SW that slowly died, being replaced with no wind and a slight NW by sunset.
We ran a dual operation with aero tow and winch, Peter Clemence, Rob Kakebeeke, Nina Grünert with Ruben Rens keeping all the times from both operations and running the lights. There were about six cable breaks, which was frustrating but informative as I learnt how to splice the cables.
In the end we managed 11 launches, with no cable breaks on the last four launches. Nina got the highest launch to around 2300ft.
On the aero tow side Randy Cullen ran the show with John Spargo tugging. It got so busy that we had to get the Twin out with Martin Grünert co-opted to help with instructing.
The highlight was sending Gareth Floweday solo. Also under instruction were Peter, Werner, Ruben, Jacobus and Charles, six students in all!
Rico Suter took four paxes in his DG500 while Ian Forbes and William Whittaker flew on Vic peak, where there was some weak lift.
The first launch was at 11h45 and the last landing was at 18h46, with a page and a half of the time sheets covering 30 flights. Not bad going for a Sunday!
Students must not forget that we have free flying before 11h00 which means you get the glider for free and pay only for the tug.
If students are keen to start early, and if they phone the instructors, duty pilot and tug pilot, they can easily arrange an early start for themselves.
The time to get current is now as the good soaring weather will start during the next month, so get out there and fly
Rob Tiffin
The duty team was met in the Worcester Valley with snow on the mountains, 8 degrees on the ground with a light SW that slowly died, being replaced with no wind and a slight NW by sunset.
We ran a dual operation with aero tow and winch, Peter Clemence, Rob Kakebeeke, Nina Grünert with Ruben Rens keeping all the times from both operations and running the lights. There were about six cable breaks, which was frustrating but informative as I learnt how to splice the cables.
In the end we managed 11 launches, with no cable breaks on the last four launches. Nina got the highest launch to around 2300ft.
On the aero tow side Randy Cullen ran the show with John Spargo tugging. It got so busy that we had to get the Twin out with Martin Grünert co-opted to help with instructing.
The highlight was sending Gareth Floweday solo. Also under instruction were Peter, Werner, Ruben, Jacobus and Charles, six students in all!
Rico Suter took four paxes in his DG500 while Ian Forbes and William Whittaker flew on Vic peak, where there was some weak lift.
The first launch was at 11h45 and the last landing was at 18h46, with a page and a half of the time sheets covering 30 flights. Not bad going for a Sunday!
Students must not forget that we have free flying before 11h00 which means you get the glider for free and pay only for the tug.
If students are keen to start early, and if they phone the instructors, duty pilot and tug pilot, they can easily arrange an early start for themselves.
The time to get current is now as the good soaring weather will start during the next month, so get out there and fly
Rob Tiffin
posted by CGC Reporter at 29.8.05
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