Weekend Report: Tanqua again
Saturday
From all accounts - a bit of a disjointed day with some pilots and students having great wave flights and others having a very frustrated time. Remember that if you want to fly any club trainers or other gliders then you must endeavour to get to the field early enough to help get things going for the day.
Unfortunately the duty pilot became ill and had to go home. We hope that you get well soon, June. We would like to thank Horst and Jerry for stepping into the breach and taking over the duty for the day. The arrangements were not without further complications: Boet had swapped instruction duty with Peter Clemence who in turn had swapped with Martin, who fortunately WAS there!
Sunday
When we entered the valley at Tulbach on the way back to Worcester from Tanqua, we were astonished to notice that our indicated speed was 150kph, while on the GPS it was 200kph - a nice tail wind of 50kph at 3500'. When we neared the airfield, the singles were launching and Johan Gericke got into wave off Vic Peak, later to be joined by GOK with Martin and Sven, and Garth in his Cirrus. Peter Farrell joined then in his Ventus and it seemed that everyone had a successful flying day. Unfortunately the wind was too strong for the trainers.
Tanqua was predominetly a motor-glider weekend - Alvin Guntert flew Otto’s DG500 and Dave and Hubert took their own DG, we went in the Grob and Wynand Rademeyer took his Motorfalke. Later we were joined by Adri and Adriaan in their Lambada, plus Rudy and Gerhard in their Tandem Motorfalke. We also had Mike Miller and his son, Greg, also in a Grob, this one from Elgin. Next morning were joined by Andre and Boet in their Sperber. Peter Clemence drove through with his family as well as Mike’s wife Jenny and daughter Megan.
Alewyn Burger gave us a demonstration of how a helicopter should be flown and Augusta stunned the other pilots with her demonstration of flying the helicopter very confidently from the RH seat!
A very enjoyable weekend was had by all, and as usual at Tanqua, Esther's catering was superb. Well done again Ester, Alewyn and Augusta - thanks very much for another wonderful weekend.
Alison
From all accounts - a bit of a disjointed day with some pilots and students having great wave flights and others having a very frustrated time. Remember that if you want to fly any club trainers or other gliders then you must endeavour to get to the field early enough to help get things going for the day.
Unfortunately the duty pilot became ill and had to go home. We hope that you get well soon, June. We would like to thank Horst and Jerry for stepping into the breach and taking over the duty for the day. The arrangements were not without further complications: Boet had swapped instruction duty with Peter Clemence who in turn had swapped with Martin, who fortunately WAS there!
Sunday
When we entered the valley at Tulbach on the way back to Worcester from Tanqua, we were astonished to notice that our indicated speed was 150kph, while on the GPS it was 200kph - a nice tail wind of 50kph at 3500'. When we neared the airfield, the singles were launching and Johan Gericke got into wave off Vic Peak, later to be joined by GOK with Martin and Sven, and Garth in his Cirrus. Peter Farrell joined then in his Ventus and it seemed that everyone had a successful flying day. Unfortunately the wind was too strong for the trainers.
Tanqua was predominetly a motor-glider weekend - Alvin Guntert flew Otto’s DG500 and Dave and Hubert took their own DG, we went in the Grob and Wynand Rademeyer took his Motorfalke. Later we were joined by Adri and Adriaan in their Lambada, plus Rudy and Gerhard in their Tandem Motorfalke. We also had Mike Miller and his son, Greg, also in a Grob, this one from Elgin. Next morning were joined by Andre and Boet in their Sperber. Peter Clemence drove through with his family as well as Mike’s wife Jenny and daughter Megan.
Alewyn Burger gave us a demonstration of how a helicopter should be flown and Augusta stunned the other pilots with her demonstration of flying the helicopter very confidently from the RH seat!
A very enjoyable weekend was had by all, and as usual at Tanqua, Esther's catering was superb. Well done again Ester, Alewyn and Augusta - thanks very much for another wonderful weekend.
Alison
posted by CGC Reporter at 24.10.05
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