On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:44:08AM +1030, Catherine Conway wrote:
> I thought Port Augusta were claiming it because he launched from there....
If Bordertown or Millicent want to collect the trophy from
Whyalla, they need only to perform the first 300km of their cross
country in a car with the glider hooked onto the towbar, then take a
launch from Port Augusta.
Even better, they could aerotow out of the Whyalla Aerodrome. It's
less than 20km to the gliding field from there, and with a sufficiently
high aerotow a pilot wouldn't even need to thermal.
In a desperate attempt to regain the trophy, AUGC is now overhauling
its winch, fixing up those bits which need to be fixed to make it
roadworthy, and fitting it with a towbar so that it can take a glider
anywhere in the state -- It'll be an entirely self-contained gliding
club on wheels. We figure that no matter where the trophy ends up
next, we'll be able to get it back by launching from an adjacent
paddock. We'll use a two-seater and take a trainee, so that prospective
solo pilots can get a taste of what cross-country flying is really
all about.
If other clubs follow our lead, some amount of coordination will be
required: The safety aspects of half a dozen winches clustered around
a "foreign" airfield, all trying to launch gliders at the same time
so that their club can be the first to retrieve the trophy, are probably
worth exploring, although the point may well be moot because by the time
everyone gets organized the ASH25 from Balaclava will have flown in and
collected the trophy anyway. It is suggested that the safest, fairest
solution is to assign the trophy to clubs by means of a rotating roster
system.
- mark :-)
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