Of course!
We had a super long weekend with some good flying, nice weather although a bit chilly and good results.
The weather is definitely changing. During last week temperatures of 32 degrees were seen at FAWC. The switch was turned over last Tuesday.
On all three days there was a front hanging around the mountains and on Saturday night we had rain which lingered on in the valley on Sunday and the occasional lost droplet was felt. At Brandwag and at Rawsonville showers could be seen.
Saturday was the best day with Rudi in wave up to 11 000 ft above the Robertson road and not climbing more because he had no oxygen installed. He entered the wave at the small hub just before Vic Peak but because of the TMA there he went into the secondary further downwind. Of course outside the TMA is the place to fly wave-rarely do we hear that this is done. Rico flew with Jerry to beyond Renosterhoek also the first swallow to venture there this season. Johan flew some friends around Vic Peak.
Mark landed his Zlin here. He told me that the fuelbill from Lanseria to here came to 3000 R. He must have lots of funds-the pensioner flying a Carat has a fuelbill for the same trip in the 300 R bracket.
Rudi repaired GOK’s broken wingdolly and Johan found that the antenna connection in GUZ was wrong and installed the proper stuff. During the weekend other work done was a “magdrop” on the VWRV as well as MIV both fixed by Johnny.
The 7 students on the course were only on the winch. Winching was a success this weekend thanks to a good team. Only one cable break on the launch of the total 80 launches. We are getting there. On Sunday 34 launches were made; a near record for the Club so I am told. Thanks to the launchteam; Marion, and Brian, overseer Ian and drivers John and Rob K and Martin Grunert but also the instructors : Andre, Paul Bailey, Peter Clemence, Fred Vernimmen, Quintin Hoole, Mike Pacsoe and Ian Forbes . William drove the tractor the entire day on Sunday. Other duty pilots who helped out on their days of Duty were Alison and Paul and Jesse Roos.
A height of 3100 ft was reached on the first winchlaunch on Saturday. On Sunday Mike Pascoe also towed to Vic peak and stayed there for an hour while Rico tried to find lift in his DG500. Convergence cost us valuable time while we had to change runways twice! Otherwise we would have exceeded the winch launch record which was set up by Andre and Mad Max 1 a few years ago – 34 launches, too! These windshifts caused also some dicey launches because of tailwind and windshear a bit up.
On Monday our up-country pilot, MartinYoung had some good flying in the SE on the Villiersdorp ridge. He reported that wave was there. He also flew down to Robertson and back. Gerhard Waller also took a launch and flew for an hour. The Ka 7’s flew in lift for over an hour from the top of the winch!
The weather is definitely changing. During last week temperatures of 32 degrees were seen at FAWC. The switch was turned over last Tuesday.
On all three days there was a front hanging around the mountains and on Saturday night we had rain which lingered on in the valley on Sunday and the occasional lost droplet was felt. At Brandwag and at Rawsonville showers could be seen.
Saturday was the best day with Rudi in wave up to 11 000 ft above the Robertson road and not climbing more because he had no oxygen installed. He entered the wave at the small hub just before Vic Peak but because of the TMA there he went into the secondary further downwind. Of course outside the TMA is the place to fly wave-rarely do we hear that this is done. Rico flew with Jerry to beyond Renosterhoek also the first swallow to venture there this season. Johan flew some friends around Vic Peak.
Mark landed his Zlin here. He told me that the fuelbill from Lanseria to here came to 3000 R. He must have lots of funds-the pensioner flying a Carat has a fuelbill for the same trip in the 300 R bracket.
Rudi repaired GOK’s broken wingdolly and Johan found that the antenna connection in GUZ was wrong and installed the proper stuff. During the weekend other work done was a “magdrop” on the VWRV as well as MIV both fixed by Johnny.
The 7 students on the course were only on the winch. Winching was a success this weekend thanks to a good team. Only one cable break on the launch of the total 80 launches. We are getting there. On Sunday 34 launches were made; a near record for the Club so I am told. Thanks to the launchteam; Marion, and Brian, overseer Ian and drivers John and Rob K and Martin Grunert but also the instructors : Andre, Paul Bailey, Peter Clemence, Fred Vernimmen, Quintin Hoole, Mike Pacsoe and Ian Forbes . William drove the tractor the entire day on Sunday. Other duty pilots who helped out on their days of Duty were Alison and Paul and Jesse Roos.
A height of 3100 ft was reached on the first winchlaunch on Saturday. On Sunday Mike Pascoe also towed to Vic peak and stayed there for an hour while Rico tried to find lift in his DG500. Convergence cost us valuable time while we had to change runways twice! Otherwise we would have exceeded the winch launch record which was set up by Andre and Mad Max 1 a few years ago – 34 launches, too! These windshifts caused also some dicey launches because of tailwind and windshear a bit up.
On Monday our up-country pilot, MartinYoung had some good flying in the SE on the Villiersdorp ridge. He reported that wave was there. He also flew down to Robertson and back. Gerhard Waller also took a launch and flew for an hour. The Ka 7’s flew in lift for over an hour from the top of the winch!
posted by CGC Reporter at 25.9.07
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