Weekend Report: Worcester gets Launch Pads!
As predicted the weather was SE on Saturday and very stable. Unfortunately we had no students avail themselves of this perfect weather for training. However the motor gliders were out in force.
Firstly Adri flew GXH by herself locally and then Adriaan and Reinhold went for a long, leasurely flight and landed at Happy Valley. GZF was kept busy with June Sterling, Paul Bailey and Martin Grunert continued with Pauls conversion on his newly aquired GUF, and Boet Coetzee flew with Frans du Toit in the busy GZF after which Frans flew the same to Tulbach to say hi to his family! Jerry and I took to the skies in VAE and had a look at John Fischer’s strip and then to Kwaggaskloof dam and back to the airfield.
The only real gliding that took place was GUC with first Jerry (18min and then Johan Gericke (20 min). It was VERY stable and NO wind.
Johnny spent the entire day fitting a new alternator to the tractor and rewired a good section of the wiring in the area of the alternator. Thanks Johnny!!
When I heard the hanger doors rattling early on Sunday morning, I expected the predicted NE but was surprised when the wind was fresh SE! Adriaan was on duty and the Ka13 was taken out when Phil arrived with Martin Young. Another student who arrived at the same time, Craig Hopkins, was extremely fortunate when he had the first flight of the day on Vic Peak and stayed up with Phil for an hour. An intro flight had the second, not so long, flight and Martin Young, who had flown earlier with Martin Grunert in GXC, now flew the 13 as well. Adri did circuits in GXH throughout the day (Nice landings, Adri)!
Rob Tiffin then collared Martin G for some Rotax Falking and Rob Kakebeeke flew his Karat. As we were leaving for home, about 4-00pm I saw Kevin Mitchell take off in his DG400. I hope you had a good flight, Kevin.
Just on another matter:
The Rotax Falke now has a “Start-up” pad compliments of Johhny Navarro and John Spargo. Please, when positioning the Falke onto this pad, the wheels must just be on the back edge with the propeller in about the middle of the pad. The propeller must NOT be on the front edge or hanging over the edge of this pad. The concrete pad is also NOT for run-ups but just for starting the Motor Falke so that the propeller does not get damaged by stones.
Remember the GAUNTLET (I hope I got it right this time, Peter) this weekend! See you all there.
Regards
Alison
Firstly Adri flew GXH by herself locally and then Adriaan and Reinhold went for a long, leasurely flight and landed at Happy Valley. GZF was kept busy with June Sterling, Paul Bailey and Martin Grunert continued with Pauls conversion on his newly aquired GUF, and Boet Coetzee flew with Frans du Toit in the busy GZF after which Frans flew the same to Tulbach to say hi to his family! Jerry and I took to the skies in VAE and had a look at John Fischer’s strip and then to Kwaggaskloof dam and back to the airfield.
The only real gliding that took place was GUC with first Jerry (18min and then Johan Gericke (20 min). It was VERY stable and NO wind.
Johnny spent the entire day fitting a new alternator to the tractor and rewired a good section of the wiring in the area of the alternator. Thanks Johnny!!
When I heard the hanger doors rattling early on Sunday morning, I expected the predicted NE but was surprised when the wind was fresh SE! Adriaan was on duty and the Ka13 was taken out when Phil arrived with Martin Young. Another student who arrived at the same time, Craig Hopkins, was extremely fortunate when he had the first flight of the day on Vic Peak and stayed up with Phil for an hour. An intro flight had the second, not so long, flight and Martin Young, who had flown earlier with Martin Grunert in GXC, now flew the 13 as well. Adri did circuits in GXH throughout the day (Nice landings, Adri)!
Rob Tiffin then collared Martin G for some Rotax Falking and Rob Kakebeeke flew his Karat. As we were leaving for home, about 4-00pm I saw Kevin Mitchell take off in his DG400. I hope you had a good flight, Kevin.
Just on another matter:
The Rotax Falke now has a “Start-up” pad compliments of Johhny Navarro and John Spargo. Please, when positioning the Falke onto this pad, the wheels must just be on the back edge with the propeller in about the middle of the pad. The propeller must NOT be on the front edge or hanging over the edge of this pad. The concrete pad is also NOT for run-ups but just for starting the Motor Falke so that the propeller does not get damaged by stones.
Remember the GAUNTLET (I hope I got it right this time, Peter) this weekend! See you all there.
Regards
Alison
posted by CGC Reporter at 26.6.06
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