Following in Dad's  footsteps, Tim Southcott  soloed after instruction with Garry Speight

...and then on the next flight Mark went all by himself !
A great effort by Team Southcott.

Anthony Scott continued his training and Peter Brookman from Bordertown Keith G C came, flew and went home as a proud owner of  Pik 20 UMC  - sorry no pics fellas.


To finish of a great week Mother Nature treated us to spectacular "Sound & Light " show which left us powerless for 24 hours

After a short stay of only 5 weeks on this visit , our perennial English member, Harry Potts leaves tomorrow for the UK and back to work as a ship's captain.

As always, Harry's visits are most enjoyable ( especially  his home made pate) and his readiness to get on the mowers and generally "put in" around the place are greatly appreciated.

Bon voyage mate !

 Earlier in the week Keith Southcott arrived with his 3 boys, Tim Mark and Joel, with the intention of introducing the boys to aviation.
Keith started gliding at Armidale in the 70's when "Joy Flights" were $2.00 a flight and now flys A320's for Jetstar.
After his check flights Keith was solo again  and  thinks he may have re-caught the bug of flying for fun and could be back at LKSC sooner rather than later !

This week did not look promising  ( a continuation of last weeks foul weather ) but Garry Speight and his guest, Tadashi Yoshida, enjoyed 4 days flying in IKX

It was fortunate that our Chief Photographer,  Geraldine  Clark , was in town as a window of opportunity presented itself on Monday for Geraldine to get some great shots of the lake from GFP including water going over the Dam wall

More of Geraldines great shots will be appearing on the members chat site.

Tad and Garry preparing for Tads penultimate flight on this visit to LKSC

Bob Dirks (Left ) and Todd Clark flat out tending the new grass on 32 Left

Today ( Friday ) has been the wettest I have seen here during my time here at LKSC with a 50mm rainfall between 0700 and 1200 but the forecast looks good for next when we welcome the Southcott family.

See you then

Regards  Ian

After having re-scheduled  the State Comps due to the forecast inclement weather, we were at a bit of a loss as to what to do. After a general clean up it was decided to officially open the new access road to the Southern launch point.

Some  of our International  members performing the ribbon cutting :- from L to R
Harry Potts (UK),  Kim Mangan  (Luxembourg), Tomas Munk (Slovakia)
and Brian Durieu (late of Hong Kong)

NSW State Gliding Comps

Wed - after a no-fly day yesterday, the organising committee met and with due consideration to impending weather, it was reluctantly decided to reschedule the contest until the first quarter of 2011.  The decision was readily accepted by the pilots.  At this time, gliders are being de-rigged and heading off.  It is still raining, with the same conditions predicted for the next 4 or 5 days.


Thanks to all who participated in the organisation of this contest and in particular, Dave Shorter who shouldered the organisational burden.


Photos:  Jo Pocklington

PROTEST COMMITTEE

President, LKSC Tim Carr & Treasurer Dave Shorter

Steve Hedley - morning after 5 outlandings in 2 days.....

Paul Mander - day winner

Nick Singer - day winner

Craig Collings - day winner

Tom Claffey - day winner

Dion Weston - day winner

Harry Medlicott - weatherman

Bruce Taylor - task setter

Vic Hatfield - safety officer

 

NSW State Gliding Comps Day 2 - first competition day

After looking at the temp trace and various forecasts, the first competition day, Monday, looked to be similar to Sunday but the morning improved.  Gridding commenced immediately after a delayed briefing and first launch was 12.30pm following reports of Cu on track from Nick Singer who was up as a sniffer.   The AAT was Mullaley, Narrabri, Split Rock for all classes with distances from 112km to 456km.  There were 3 outlandings;  the day and the task worked and it's amazing the difference that 5 tugs make.

Apres gliding at Lake Keepit

NSW State Gliding Comps Sunday 28 Nov 10

Practice day on Sat was a practice for all concerned - pilots and organisers alike.  A short task - Mullaley - Castletop - Split Rock - with task distances from 138km to 282km for all classes.  Sat was the last day of the good band of weather enjoyed at Narromine Cup last week, which resulted in some good times by Bruce Taylor (122kph), Tom Claffey (120kph), Dion Weston (111kph), Matt Gage (99kph) and Dave Shorter (94kph).

Comp Day 1 - Sunday - was cancelled.  The area forecast and temp trace flights indicated a too small window of opportunity to set a meaningful task and subsequent local flying proved this to be the case.

THURSDAY 04 NOVEMBER

Lochlainn Benyon  from Kewarra Beach enjoyed a great flight in our beautiful Duo Discus - ZAB. Being

9 yrs old, Lochy has only got 6 yrs to wait before going solo !!

A mixed bag at LKSC both weather  and nationality wise.

Whilst most of our members and guests in this photo are now Australian citizens, countries of origin are Wales, Switzerland ,Slovakia, Czech Republic, England, China, Germany and the odd Aussie.

During the week Andy Sampson from the London Gliding Club flew a couple of 300's and gave a very interesting talk on flying from Dunstable - air space there is a tad different to YKEP and the boys from Newcastle gave our new tuggie a tour of the LK nightspots

FRIDAY 08 OCTOBER

A red letter day for Guy Gillespie from Canberra - HIS 1ST SOLO ON HIS 15TH BIRTHDAY!!

Guy  spent the week with us brushing up on his skills before the big event.

Guy's mum, Ratsny, was a surprise visitor to LKSC to witness his solo flights.

Well done Guy and look forward to seeing you back soon to start your single seat and cross country training.