We had a high turn-out for the working-bee on Saturday. ERW looked great and the hanger/clubrooms got a good clean. Sunday was another pretty good soaring day. Doug again spent quite some time in the back seat of JW as we had numerous trial and instructional flights. Glider pilot Carl visited from the USA, and new member Peter experienced his first soaring flight. Russell did 9 aerotows and we also did 2 winch launches at the end of the day (Roy making excellent progress after a long sabbatical).
The single seaters had 3-4hr flights in pretty good thermals. Roland (LS3 VH) certainly had the most meritorious flight. Along with John (KG) he set off north along the Dunstans but really the hills where not working well (there was 20kts across the tops at this stage). Roland had the wheel down ready to land near Thomson Creek but climbed away and took the flat-land path to Hawkduns where the cloud base reached 10000'. Well done! John turned back and headed south and found better conditions on the Remarkables.
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| Remarkably good soaring near Queenstown late Sunday |
Phil (KJ) had great soaring, again mainly in the valley where thermals went to 9000'. The weather changed (and improved) throughout the day. Roger Sparks said that he flew a long flight out of Omarama and it was all in wave. The westerly finally arrived about 8pm that evening.
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