Lots of people turned up at the club, in the run up to Ian's Wedding. The forecast looked reasonable, and a task was set - AAT Tambar Springs 40 km Baan Baa 30 Km and Manilla 20 km. I flew the tug again, but Ian jumped in for the last couple of launches, and I was able to jump into the back of the ASH 25 with Geoff Sim. There was quite a lot of overcast on the first leg of the task, and it was a matter of chasing the sunny spots. The ASH goes a long way before you need to worry about taking a thermal, however we did get down to 3000 ft QNH at one point. We clipped the Tambar Springs circle and headed for Baan Baa. We could hear Dave Shorter boasting about 10 knot themals ahead of us. The conditions improved as the day went on - the threatened overdevelopment cleared up, and the cumulus was good.
I found the ASH climbs a lot better with Geoff flying it. We calculated that it would take 10 minutes to get back to Keepit from Manilla flying at 90kts, but since we flew at 120kts, we got back a bit early.
There was one outlanding at Kennedy's airstrip at Gunnedah, and Ian did the aerotow retrieve. All the wedding plans were going smoothly, and his family arrived and got settled in.
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