Very busy day at the club. The blipmap forecast indicated that the soaring conditions would not be good, but the xc skies forecast indicated that it would be reasonably good for a short time. Nether of them was correct, because it was pretty good for a long time!
A few of us went to Dave Seib's memorial at Manilla, and Jay Anderson took over the running of the day so that I could go. Many thanks for that. Dave was a hang glider pilot who learned to fly sailplanes at Lake Keepit, and I had a bit to do with his training. I remember doing his outlanding checks. He was a natural pilot and progressed through our fleet rapidly. He died sadly in Brazil, at a hang gliding competition.
There were many visitors to fly - John Stewart came out with some friends, Garry Speight had a trainee pilot in his twin astir, Bill Gleeson-Barker was flying with Nicola, one of the airforce cadets, and Matthew Minter had a group of his school students to fly. We ended up not using the winch but there were heaps of flights.
John Hoye came out and flew in LL, which he now has a share in, and ventured north along a cloud street to Upper Horton. Dave Shorter Jay Anderson and Allan Buttenshaw also progressed north along the hills for some way. Wendy Medlicott flew her LS8 - not sure where she went. A visiting pilot from southern cross flew in our LS7, and President Chris Bowman had his first flight in the LS6 which went very well, and he landed nicely on the wheel.
I took a lady up for an air experience flight for her birthday - we were able to climb to 5000 ft before I left the thermal to allow her to do the flying. She got her full 30minutes, and had a great time.
Fantastic day for the middle of winter - though it was cold in the morning and evening. The was much talk about the minor earthquake we experienced the night before, but the only damage we heard of was the death of an ornament in the Matthew Minter household.
Jenny
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