WEEKEND REPORT: Rain & Boomers
I suppose the highlight of the weekend was when Mark Siegelberg drove onto the airfield at 7.30am on Saturday morning with his “new” glider in tow ….ZS TIM! His Nimbus 2C. He had driven through the night from Magaliesburg.
Now, for those of you that don’t know, this glider is only one of two that have monogrammed registrations. The other is ZS- BOB – owned by Ed Verpraet. Tim Biggs owned ZS -TIM and flew many records with her. (Maybe we will see ZS -BOB in the skies above Worcester one day soon, too.)!!! I wish Mark many happy soaring hours with her.
Saturday was 8/8 cloud and rainy. There was a strong SE too! It was good to see Peter Wooley who came out to do some maintenance to his property on the airfield and brought Susan along, too. Unfortunately the weather was none too pleasant and many, who did drive out for the day, returned to Cape Town early. Nicky test flew the Rotax Falke and later did some cross country training with Jacobus Hartman, but that was the only flying that was done on Saturday.
Sunday was a completely different story, though! Post- frontal and great thermals everywhere. Ari was positively exhausted when he had finished tugging for the day! Congratulations to William Whittaker on his newly acquired PAX rating!! Coen Marais, Frieder, Helmut, Hubert and Martin, Tom,Trevor as well as Mark (in his NEW glider) all had fantastic flights. GOK was kept busy with paxes with both Boet Coetsee and Phil Surridge instructing and Bryan Dean had a fantastic long flight in GHB. All reports were that” they could not come down!” Johan Gericke and Kevin Mitchell excelled as the “A” Team of duty pilots and were ably assisted on the admin side by Marianne Verpraet. A really nice atmosphere prevailed at the launch point and thanks to all for all the effort put into the smooth running of the operation.
I would like to wish Herbie Oberhofer a very happy 70th birthday that he celebrated this past week as well Trevor Johnson who celebrates his birthday today!! (Keep believing in that Tooth Fairy, Trevor)!
This will be the last weekend news for this year and the next will be after the weekend of the 6th January, 2007.
Duty pilots for that weekend are as per the draft roster posted on the 18th November:
Sat 6th Jan Penderis/Heaslip
Sun 7th Jan Pruter/Rens
I would like to wish everyone a safe and happy festive season and thank you for all your support during the past year.
ALISON
Now, for those of you that don’t know, this glider is only one of two that have monogrammed registrations. The other is ZS- BOB – owned by Ed Verpraet. Tim Biggs owned ZS -TIM and flew many records with her. (Maybe we will see ZS -BOB in the skies above Worcester one day soon, too.)!!! I wish Mark many happy soaring hours with her.
Saturday was 8/8 cloud and rainy. There was a strong SE too! It was good to see Peter Wooley who came out to do some maintenance to his property on the airfield and brought Susan along, too. Unfortunately the weather was none too pleasant and many, who did drive out for the day, returned to Cape Town early. Nicky test flew the Rotax Falke and later did some cross country training with Jacobus Hartman, but that was the only flying that was done on Saturday.
Sunday was a completely different story, though! Post- frontal and great thermals everywhere. Ari was positively exhausted when he had finished tugging for the day! Congratulations to William Whittaker on his newly acquired PAX rating!! Coen Marais, Frieder, Helmut, Hubert and Martin, Tom,Trevor as well as Mark (in his NEW glider) all had fantastic flights. GOK was kept busy with paxes with both Boet Coetsee and Phil Surridge instructing and Bryan Dean had a fantastic long flight in GHB. All reports were that” they could not come down!” Johan Gericke and Kevin Mitchell excelled as the “A” Team of duty pilots and were ably assisted on the admin side by Marianne Verpraet. A really nice atmosphere prevailed at the launch point and thanks to all for all the effort put into the smooth running of the operation.
I would like to wish Herbie Oberhofer a very happy 70th birthday that he celebrated this past week as well Trevor Johnson who celebrates his birthday today!! (Keep believing in that Tooth Fairy, Trevor)!
This will be the last weekend news for this year and the next will be after the weekend of the 6th January, 2007.
Duty pilots for that weekend are as per the draft roster posted on the 18th November:
Sat 6th Jan Penderis/Heaslip
Sun 7th Jan Pruter/Rens
I would like to wish everyone a safe and happy festive season and thank you for all your support during the past year.
ALISON
posted by CGC Reporter at 11.12.06
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