Weekend Report: Converting to Wave
Saturday
William Whittaker arrived bright and early to do his duty and we took the K13 down to the 15 launch point and were joined by some enthusiastic singles.
Unfortunately the weather did not amount to much but we did lots of training and check flights. Herbie, Bill, and Otto launched but only Herbie managed to hang in until the convergence eventually arrived. Whoever launched after that had no problem staying up. Ari tugged for 3.5hrs in total and we had a very gratifying and active day’s flying.
The highlight of the day was Jerry converting onto GUC. Well done Jerry! Nicky continued to do conversions of members onto the Rotax Falke.
I must mention that the good, light-hearted banter and fun at the launch point on Saturday was wonderful to be part of - I personally have not had so much fun on the airfield in a long while! (at least not since the course).
Sunday
Sunday was disappointing in that it was very quickly blown out and only one of our four new students present managed to have a flight. Sven, Randy and Cornelius all managed to get into wave, and Quintin and Mike Allen had a wonderful long flight in GOK, after he was told that there would be no more launching. Andre, Jaco and Brian – don’t become despondent - you should have better luck next time.
Alison
William Whittaker arrived bright and early to do his duty and we took the K13 down to the 15 launch point and were joined by some enthusiastic singles.
Unfortunately the weather did not amount to much but we did lots of training and check flights. Herbie, Bill, and Otto launched but only Herbie managed to hang in until the convergence eventually arrived. Whoever launched after that had no problem staying up. Ari tugged for 3.5hrs in total and we had a very gratifying and active day’s flying.
The highlight of the day was Jerry converting onto GUC. Well done Jerry! Nicky continued to do conversions of members onto the Rotax Falke.
I must mention that the good, light-hearted banter and fun at the launch point on Saturday was wonderful to be part of - I personally have not had so much fun on the airfield in a long while! (at least not since the course).
Sunday
Sunday was disappointing in that it was very quickly blown out and only one of our four new students present managed to have a flight. Sven, Randy and Cornelius all managed to get into wave, and Quintin and Mike Allen had a wonderful long flight in GOK, after he was told that there would be no more launching. Andre, Jaco and Brian – don’t become despondent - you should have better luck next time.
Alison
posted by CGC Reporter at 31.10.05
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