Motorflowers

Saturday saw a beautiful winters day with a chilly early morning and pleasant mid day temperatures, no wind, a bit of left over cloud amongst the blue skies, lush green veld with yellow flowering madeliefjes. Why go to Switzerland ?
Reinhold took some four visitors up to under the clouds at the Audensberg. Friederich continued with getting experience with soaring flight and many motor gliders went for a flip like Peter W, Jesse, Rudi, Jerry. Cornelius took his LS4 for a mid winter shake down cruise and found that the pneumatic tubes were leaking presumably caused by mice eating into them. So Sunday was spent by Cornelius making his hangar and his sailplane an unfriendly place for these pests. His next problem is to cut holes in the aft fuselage to run new tubes and repair these holes.

Sunday started calm until the aerobatic crowd arrived. They popped up without informing us and luckily for all the soaring enthusiasts it did not look very good with a very stable looking sky. Rob T, Jesse, William and Phil all had a ride in a motor glider. High wind feathers could be seen in the sky foreboding a coming depression.

Now Monday the depression is here with wind speeds of 50 kph.