Weekend Report: Annual Fry-up
Those who attended the Annual Dinner at Skulpadvlei I am sure agree that a good time was had by all. Thanks to Wally for organizing the evening at a stunning setting amongst the vineyards. The food was excellent and the company was wonderful. We were amongst the last to leave at close to midnight and then drove to Worcester.
Alan O’Regan announced the results of the R & A contest during the dinner, with Garth Milne the winner in two of the categories – Well Done!! Alan also gave the status on the OLC to date which ends after the first weekend in December. At the moment Adriaan is leading so those who are chasing him still have one more competition to fly to try and catch him!!
Attached are two photos of the Annual Dinner – I have more on request – please contact me and I will send them to you.
Saturday morning saw a fresh SW and June and Hans were there bright and early to do the day’s duty. Unfortunately we had a ‘glitch’ with the duty instructors not being able to swop out so we are VERY grateful to Ian Forbes and Nicky Oberhofer who flew the entire day in GOK and GHB. Especially Ian who had his day planned around the winch. Thank you both VERY much. Nina, once again, very ably tugged.
The winching operation was manned by John Spargo, Tom Heaslip and Rob Kakebeeke who spent the entire day in the blistering sun sorting out cables. They were rewarded at the end of the day by doing two launches with the Ka7 off the winch – a great sight to see after all the dedicated hard work! Well done guys. You might have also seen the e-mail sent out by John this morning which will give you an idea as to how much work was done around the winch on Saturday.
Herbie, Rudi, Gerhard and Cornelius were virtually the only pilots flying their singles on Saturday and the conditions were very difficult resulting in Cornelius outlanding. This was unfortunate as we on the ground were stretched to capacity and Cornelius had to ask his brother-in-law (who lives in Worcester) to retrieve him. Thank heavens for family!
The “Cherry on the Top” was Bryan Dean going solo last thing in the afternoon! Congratulation, Bryan. (and that was the day-after-the-night-before)! Watch out all those who fly GUC – we have one more pilot who will be wanting to fly her soon.
We awoke to the strangest weather on Sunday morning with huge black clouds behind Brandwacht Peak and the Audenberg. They very quickly moved over the airfield , as well as rainy weather moved in from the Tulbach side. We soon had thunder and lightening and the threat of hail! After quite an intense shower the storm moved over towards Greyton and those huge clouds stayed there for quite some time. We managed to get Katyntjie out from under the bed only some time after the storm!
The team was at the field standing by and soon the tug and the gliders were taken out of the hangers. Kelvin – ably assisted by our star retriever, Demi – had the rest of his family there for moral support as well. Reinhold stepped into the breach and instructed all day as well as flew introductory flights. Ari tugged all day. The heat was intense and the flying conditions improved into the afternoon and, before the second storm arrived, Jacobus and Garth were having wonderful flights on the Keeromburg. Rob Manzoni arrived at the field with two people for air experience flights. While he was waiting he helped push gliders and then amazed everyone when he took a panga out of him Landrover and proceeded to cut down the Port Jacksons which were close to the runway. Thank you very much Rob ….and you aren’t even a Member!! (Yet).
Other pilots who flew earlier in the day were Gareth and Helmut. Rico helped out by flying some of the KLM crew visiting us. Thank you very much, Rico.
Peter Clemence and his brother – Bruce – flew their Sabre around the peninsula and then to Morningstar and then back to Worcester and arrived just before the storm broke. The Sabre – ZS EEJ – is a beautiful 2 seater ultralight and they are enjoying flying it very much.
If you happen to see Katryntjie next weekend, don’t be alarmed because she has been “groomed”. Not an easy task but we somehow accomplished it with the minimum of struggling by Katryntjie – hence the” unique” haircut. At least we got rid of some of her dreadlocks and burrs stuck in her coat.!!
I hope I have remembered everything so, until next weekend, caio!
Alan O’Regan announced the results of the R & A contest during the dinner, with Garth Milne the winner in two of the categories – Well Done!! Alan also gave the status on the OLC to date which ends after the first weekend in December. At the moment Adriaan is leading so those who are chasing him still have one more competition to fly to try and catch him!!
Attached are two photos of the Annual Dinner – I have more on request – please contact me and I will send them to you.
Saturday morning saw a fresh SW and June and Hans were there bright and early to do the day’s duty. Unfortunately we had a ‘glitch’ with the duty instructors not being able to swop out so we are VERY grateful to Ian Forbes and Nicky Oberhofer who flew the entire day in GOK and GHB. Especially Ian who had his day planned around the winch. Thank you both VERY much. Nina, once again, very ably tugged.
The winching operation was manned by John Spargo, Tom Heaslip and Rob Kakebeeke who spent the entire day in the blistering sun sorting out cables. They were rewarded at the end of the day by doing two launches with the Ka7 off the winch – a great sight to see after all the dedicated hard work! Well done guys. You might have also seen the e-mail sent out by John this morning which will give you an idea as to how much work was done around the winch on Saturday.
Herbie, Rudi, Gerhard and Cornelius were virtually the only pilots flying their singles on Saturday and the conditions were very difficult resulting in Cornelius outlanding. This was unfortunate as we on the ground were stretched to capacity and Cornelius had to ask his brother-in-law (who lives in Worcester) to retrieve him. Thank heavens for family!
The “Cherry on the Top” was Bryan Dean going solo last thing in the afternoon! Congratulation, Bryan. (and that was the day-after-the-night-before)! Watch out all those who fly GUC – we have one more pilot who will be wanting to fly her soon.
We awoke to the strangest weather on Sunday morning with huge black clouds behind Brandwacht Peak and the Audenberg. They very quickly moved over the airfield , as well as rainy weather moved in from the Tulbach side. We soon had thunder and lightening and the threat of hail! After quite an intense shower the storm moved over towards Greyton and those huge clouds stayed there for quite some time. We managed to get Katyntjie out from under the bed only some time after the storm!
The team was at the field standing by and soon the tug and the gliders were taken out of the hangers. Kelvin – ably assisted by our star retriever, Demi – had the rest of his family there for moral support as well. Reinhold stepped into the breach and instructed all day as well as flew introductory flights. Ari tugged all day. The heat was intense and the flying conditions improved into the afternoon and, before the second storm arrived, Jacobus and Garth were having wonderful flights on the Keeromburg. Rob Manzoni arrived at the field with two people for air experience flights. While he was waiting he helped push gliders and then amazed everyone when he took a panga out of him Landrover and proceeded to cut down the Port Jacksons which were close to the runway. Thank you very much Rob ….and you aren’t even a Member!! (Yet).
Other pilots who flew earlier in the day were Gareth and Helmut. Rico helped out by flying some of the KLM crew visiting us. Thank you very much, Rico.
Peter Clemence and his brother – Bruce – flew their Sabre around the peninsula and then to Morningstar and then back to Worcester and arrived just before the storm broke. The Sabre – ZS EEJ – is a beautiful 2 seater ultralight and they are enjoying flying it very much.
If you happen to see Katryntjie next weekend, don’t be alarmed because she has been “groomed”. Not an easy task but we somehow accomplished it with the minimum of struggling by Katryntjie – hence the” unique” haircut. At least we got rid of some of her dreadlocks and burrs stuck in her coat.!!
I hope I have remembered everything so, until next weekend, caio!
posted by CGC Reporter at 20.11.06
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