Weekend Report: Gareth returns!
Saturday was thermic and quiet a good few enthusiastic pilots got airborne and stayed up for quite a while – Garth, Gareth, Jerry and Reinhold in GOK, Rudi, Gerhard, Rico and Roger in the DG500, Herbie (who first went for an “Alison’s Scary Flight” in the Grob with me) and Adriaan.
Most of the pilots went to Vic Peak initially with the exception of Garth who found lift at Jan du Toit’s. Unfortunately Adriaan had to outland at Wolseley and was very ably retrieved by Adri and Kylie. We also were treated to the great sight of Gareth in GUC landing back at the airfield after a nice long flight! Well done Gareth!!
The day was aggravated by changing runways twice and the Duty Pilots had their hands full with the traffic flying in from Cape Town for night flying practice at FAWC. Good practice all round, though.
The instructors, Sven and Grove`, kept busy in GHB and Jesse Roos was fortunate enough to have 3 flights and GHB almost all to himself. There was also good convergence reported east of the field which stayed there for quite some time. Boet Coetzee and Frank Dorey had a great flight in the Falke, too.
For the first time in a while we had a full time sheet!
Sunday delivered similar conditions and Ari had his hands full with instruction on GHB so Cornelius, one of the duty pilots, helped out with the two KLM paxes that arrived. Ruben Rens kept the momentum going on the ground with Rico (amazing man, this) tugging, pushing gliders and – this time – babysitting as well!!
Michael Allen and Richard Steer both had good flights in GHB.
Thanks to all who contributed to making the “wheels turn” so smoothly this weekend.
AN APPEAL PLEASE ………..
The runway verges on the 33 side are in a shocking state with weeds and Rico almost had an incident on take off on Saturday. Rico has appealed to members to come out early on Saturday morning with spades to help clear as many weeds as possible and then he will spray the area with weed killer. If we do not do this, we are at risk of losing the runway surface! Water gets in under the surface and lifts the tar and you all know how valuable the tarred sections of the runway are to us. RSVP me at architecnic@intekom.co.za if you are willing to help. If we all get stuck into the project, it will not take long.
Thank you.
See you all next weekend!
Alison
Most of the pilots went to Vic Peak initially with the exception of Garth who found lift at Jan du Toit’s. Unfortunately Adriaan had to outland at Wolseley and was very ably retrieved by Adri and Kylie. We also were treated to the great sight of Gareth in GUC landing back at the airfield after a nice long flight! Well done Gareth!!
The day was aggravated by changing runways twice and the Duty Pilots had their hands full with the traffic flying in from Cape Town for night flying practice at FAWC. Good practice all round, though.
The instructors, Sven and Grove`, kept busy in GHB and Jesse Roos was fortunate enough to have 3 flights and GHB almost all to himself. There was also good convergence reported east of the field which stayed there for quite some time. Boet Coetzee and Frank Dorey had a great flight in the Falke, too.
For the first time in a while we had a full time sheet!
Sunday delivered similar conditions and Ari had his hands full with instruction on GHB so Cornelius, one of the duty pilots, helped out with the two KLM paxes that arrived. Ruben Rens kept the momentum going on the ground with Rico (amazing man, this) tugging, pushing gliders and – this time – babysitting as well!!
Michael Allen and Richard Steer both had good flights in GHB.
Thanks to all who contributed to making the “wheels turn” so smoothly this weekend.
AN APPEAL PLEASE ………..
The runway verges on the 33 side are in a shocking state with weeds and Rico almost had an incident on take off on Saturday. Rico has appealed to members to come out early on Saturday morning with spades to help clear as many weeds as possible and then he will spray the area with weed killer. If we do not do this, we are at risk of losing the runway surface! Water gets in under the surface and lifts the tar and you all know how valuable the tarred sections of the runway are to us. RSVP me at architecnic@intekom.co.za if you are willing to help. If we all get stuck into the project, it will not take long.
Thank you.
See you all next weekend!
Alison
posted by CGC Reporter at 16.10.06
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