I went flying on the weekend...
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Had a great weekend soaring at Kingaroy, weather was 8500' under SCT CU. The
task was a 3hr AAT on Sunday, which was very appropriate & great fun!
I jagged a day win out of it, flying with Trottski's & Dad.
The start as it turned out w
Very boring day at Beverley Soaring Society on Saturday 9th Nov, 2013.
At least 8 club and private gliders went out and completed >300 km
tasks.
Lift was still working to 9,000' AMSL at 1650 hours WST (no daylight
saving here in WA).
Great (boring) day had by all.
Thanks to all who helped out t
, March 08, 2013 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Boring
G’day Gary,
I knew I should never have used that heavy paper in those hypothetical exams!
BTW, the text is Italian. “There is half a sea between saying & doing.”
mike
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Sent: Thursday, 7 March 2013 11:15 PM
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Hi Tim,
Roaming hands are common worldwide, but the Romans are now gone, and except for
specialists - have you read the ultimate text (
ng in Australia.'
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Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Boring
The best handicap system I have heard of for gliding (admittedly
theroretical) worked like this.
1. At the start of the competition each pilot nominates the value of
his o
Tim you the best scorer in Australia perhaps the world
The Libelle 301 is the best sports class glider in the world sorry 201
owners.
As far as winning it takes money, luck, natural ability and practice
I always hope to taxi after landing as if you cant you crashed.
The news group is a lot o
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Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Boring
Peter,
That is an interesting suggestion! I wonder if it could be practically (and
fairly), done?
Re "poor" task
on this web site, for the
perusal and comment of a latter generation of glider pilots?
Gary
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How about letting the previous generation
smartphone
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Subject: [Aus-soaring] Boring
Date: Thu, Mar 7, 2013 12:29
Ron,
Because the handicaps have practical limitations as gliders have
different performanc
!
>> However if you invert the question, Standard Class gliders may fly in 15 m
>> (Racing) Class.
>> Gary
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>> To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2
n, Standard Class gliders may fly in 15 m
> (Racing) Class.
> Gary
>
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> From: Ron Sanders
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 1:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Boring
>
> Dear Adam
Who said the handicaps were so good?
Regarding CLASSES, any glider which fits is fine.
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> (Racing) Class.
> Gary
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 1:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Boring
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> Dear Adam,
> i agree with you!!
&g
At 08:48 AM 7/03/2013, you wrote:
Ron,
It is because they have flaps, of course!
However if you invert the question, Standard Class gliders may fly
in 15 m (Racing) Class.
Gary
Clean miss of the point again, Gary. Have a think about it.
Mike
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> Dear Adam,
> i ag
course!
> However if you invert the question, Standard Class gliders may fly in 15 m
> (Racing) Class.
> Gary
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 1:23 AM
>
AM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Boring
Dear Adam,
i agree with you!!
And i note that there was not one reply to your far more interesting posted
question " if the handicaps are so good why aren't fifteen metre flapped
gliders allowed in Standard class?"
The priori
On 5/03/2013 10:16 PM, Adam Woolley wrote:
I went soaring today (well a circuit), it was awesome!
WPP
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Dear Adam,
i agree with you!!
And i note that there was not one reply to your far more interesting posted
question " if the handicaps are so good why aren't fifteen metre flapped
gliders allowed in Standard class?"
The priorities are not in the right order.
RS
On 5 March 2013 20:16, Adam Wooll
I went soaring today (well a circuit), it was awesome!
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Day winner, just! Kingaroy pilots winning both tasks at the QLD States today :)
Stats for the day...
276km at 107.72km/hr; 5.7kts (17%); 51:1 for 22.4km glides at an average
interthermal speed of
Go! Adam Go!
Great write ups nice decision making processes. Well done, keep it up
and good luck.
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Stats for the day...
307.7km @ 95.64km/hr; 4.5kts (23%); 45:1 for 16.3km glides @ an average
cruise speed of 131km/hr; Extra
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Stats for the day...
307.7km
@ 95.64km/hr; 4.5kts (23%); 45:1 for 16.3km glides @ an average cruise
speed of 131km/hr; Extra 17km covered in deviations (weakness app
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Stats for the day, 185km @ 82.01km/hr; 3.4kts (31%); 33:1 for 12.1km
glides @ 124km/hr inter thermal speed. Deviating 10 extra kilometers on
task (maybe the reason I didn't go faster, as it was basically a blue
day)
w
Good on you Adam. Think just how much better that Cirrus will go with the new
skid on . Sent them today, snail mail.
Patch
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Sent: Monday, 17 September, 2012 6:48:45 AM (GMT+1000) Auto-Detected
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Wow. Just wow. What a great weekend. Just epic soaring conditions. Amazing
camaraderie & many more hooked new JAG's! Both days sporting average climbs of
5kts to 8,000'QNH under CU filled skies.
Saturday the 15th September. With the sky looking soarable from 09:30, both
James 'Dutters' Du
s-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net] On Behalf Of Adam
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Sent: Sunday, 1 July 2012 6:39 PM
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Subject: [Aus-soaring] BORING
G'day All,
Thought I'd put a boring report together of my weekend soaring activity in
the KING-A-ROY area. Saturday was a non-rostered t
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> From: aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net
> [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net] On Behalf Of Adam
> Woolley
> Sent: Sunday, 1 July 2012 6:39 PM
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> Subject: [Aus-soaring] BORING
>
> G
At 06:39 PM 1/07/2012, you wrote:
W3 is performing well, though with everything so well sealed, it's
blowing out the high pressure air out the wing-gap seals =
strategically placed vent required?
I have a mold for a JS1 style vent if you want to make yourself one.
No little wing thingy fo
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Subject: [Aus-soaring] BORING
G'day All,
Thought I'd put a boring report together of my weekend soaring activity in
the KING-A-ROY area. Saturday was a non-rostered tug pilot day, thankfully
though with a few phone calls we were lucky enough to get a launch at 1300
G'day All,
Thought I'd put a boring report together of my weekend soaring activity in the
KING-A-ROY area. Saturday was a non-rostered tug pilot day, thankfully though
with a few phone calls we were lucky enough to get a launch at 1300 - not one
launch, but 5 of them for the hungry pilots that
Went gliding on Saturday 11th Sep. at Beverley, WA
Nice lift under Cu's/SCu to 5,000'.
Fun had by all.
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Despite the big wet on the East coast, we had a lovely sunny autumn's day at
BSS on Saturday 25th. (Rain during the non flying days would be very welcome).
Climbs to 5,000' were acheived in rapidly cycling thermals (ok; nothing like
the Bunyan wave).
Training flights were being carried out.
We h
After the explosions settled down, he stuck his head above the parapet. He
surveyed the scorched earth before him and declared:
"I went gliding last Saturday at BSS. I did emergency procedures with a
trainee. I sent someone solo. I flew an Air Experience Flight. But not all in
the same flight t
Never mind the good books, where's the bloody cheque book ?I had a ball
today, you shoulda been here..
JR
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Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Au
ousands by just getting a half scale one.
Keep having as much fun as you can and keep practicing for next rally.
cheers
Patch
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Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 7:17 PM
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Well it was just one of those days really, spent some time in the Oly going
around, up and down, and covered a bit of country, best height was 3,200
feet.
regards
JR
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At Beverley Soaring Society last Saturday.
Lovely streeting lift to 5,500' AMSL (limited by cloudbase). Strong post
frontal wind out of the WSW.
Had a 75min flight in the DG1000, took my nephew for an introductory flight,
had him thermalling (in a fashion) by the end of the flight. Had difficul
would like to look further at what we have.
Regards
Greg Beecroft
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Karen
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Subject: [Aus-soaring] Boring Admin Stuff
At Boonah we have
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From: erich wittstock
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 1:13 PM
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Dear "boring club members"
I thought that I am the only one thinking about this but no!
Now,
Regards
Dave L
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Karen
Sent: Tuesday, 19 June 2007 8:38 PM
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Subject: [Aus-soaring] Boring Admin Stuff
At Boonah we have been using the "Gliding Club Computer Program
Dear "boring club members"
I thought that I am the only one thinking about this but no!
Now, here is a real challenge:
There are clubs out there that are using commercial accounting packages i.e.
Quick(en)Books, MYOB etc.
How do those clubs take care of pilot's logs and glider logs?
We are re
Brian,
Can you contact me off line
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At Boonah we have been
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Subject: [Aus-soaring] Boring Admin Stuff
At Boonah we have been using the "Gliding Club Computer Program" for
some time to track our members flying accounts.
The program runs OK, but the members accounts reports are very poorly
setout and only available
And me
Cheers
Derek
(02) 9342 8241
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Subject: [Aus-soaring] Boring Admin Stuff
At Boonah we have
PTB
Sent: Tuesday, 19 June 2007 9:47 PM
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
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Be careful of database size with Access! The older version ('95?) only
was stable to 1GB then became notoriously unreliable. M/soft proudly
announced
Be careful of database size with Access! The older version ('95?) only
was stable to 1GB then became notoriously unreliable. M/soft proudly
announced that they'd doubled the stability size in later versions to
2GB, carefully omitting that each record was double the size of the
previous version.
e 19, 2007 9:07 PM
Subject: [Aus-soaring] Boring Admin Stuff
At Boonah we have been using the “Gliding Club Computer Program” for some
time to track our members flying accounts.
The program runs OK, but the members accounts reports are very poorly setout
and only available as a text file.
At Boonah we have been using the “Gliding Club Computer Program” for some
time to track our members flying accounts.
The program runs OK, but the members accounts reports are very poorly setout
and only available as a text file.
We were going to write a new program based around Access or Excel, t
Went for a blast in the fox today, the fog didn't lift until 12:30 in the
afternoon, and it was back in here at 16:30 short day but a lot of fun.
regards JR
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Sent: Sunday, August 06,
Vintage Glider Rally Boring
There were 18 vintage gliders at Bordertown, plus
the Bordertown gliders,and a Luton Minor and Tiger Moth'We flew everyday,
a total of 288 launches. 3,137.6 Kms. were flown. heights of 11,000 feet
were achieved by those who had oxygen,did I mention we flew everyda
Controversial topic follows...
Beverley Soaring Society Sunday 27th Nov 2005.
Thunderstorms went through overnight. Greeted with a strong easterly, used RWY
08. Wind dropped off. Lift to 4,000' initially.
Moved to RWY 34. Day improving. Lift to at least 6,000', strong sink around too.
Daryl Mc
A tuggy's perspective of Sunday 23rd Oct at Beverley Soaring Society, WA.
34 tows requiring 210 minutes flying time (I was a busy lad).
The talented Mr. Eckey visited and was running a coaching course, with small
lead and follow tasks set.
Blue day with lift to 4,500' that broke through to 6
WA had a public holiday yesterday (26th Sep. 2005).
One word summary of spring-time gliding at Beverley Soaring Society: "LOVELY"
The day started up at around midday and closed down around 4.30 pm.
Lift to 6,800' (cloudbase) although the best lift worked to 6,000'. Fairly
strong NW wind at alti
BSS Sunday, 28 Aug, 2005.
Started wet and raining, wind NW. Swung to SW, showers stopped. Cloudbase
2,500' to 3,000'. Operated from RWY 26. Flew the Puch for my Annual Flight
Review. Then there were some check flights. Then flew by myself in the Puch,
nice to fly something that spins properly
Beverley soaring society, Sun, June 19.
Good day despite all the recent rain. Who says that gliding is a summer sport?
Initially windy from WSW. Using RWY 26.
16 flights. Longest flight, 58 minutes (came down through choice). Thermals to
cloudbase at 3,700'.
Yours truly was the tug pilot all
ues relating to Soaring in Australia."
Sent: Monday, 30 May 2005 11:00
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] BORING
> Texler, Michael wrote:
> > Beverley Soaring Society, Out west on the correct side of the dog proof
> > fence.
>
those avgas powered thermals are pretty handy on a non soarable day. ;)
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Texler, Michael wrote:
Beverley Soaring Society, Out west on the correct side of the dog proof fence.
You've gone native, haven't you?
- mark :-)
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Beverley Soaring Society, Out west on the correct side of the dog proof fence.
Sun 29th May 2005
Temp mid 20's, lovely sunny day. Inversion at 2,000'. Nothing really soarable.
In excess of 25 flights. Nice and smooth conditions, great day for trainees.
The Cunderdin GCWA Blanik arrived (Ian few
Depends whether it was core or non core.
Ian P.
Kookaburra Precision Soaring Team
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Terry Neumann wrote:
stared with the despair and disbelief at the now empty bottle.
Yes, it was a right-royal tragedy that will take therapy to overcome. I
will be suggesting to the committee that nothing short of a Royal
Commission will be satisfactory to sort out how this could possibly ha
You lucky lucky bugga, on the bright side, at least you were flying.JR
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Saturday did not look promising at Balaklava. High cloud covered the
sky, the exact wind direction was to remain a matter of ongoing
conjecture until the
sea breeze arrived later and sorted it out. We had to rig both the
21's after their
visit to the Copper Coast the previous week
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Fun is the key to ecstasy, Regards JR
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Fun is the key to ecstasy, Regards JR
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> I would have sa
] Boring
I only said the day died, I did not say what caused the day to die..!JR
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>
> Not bad at Millicent, cloudbase was only 2400, but had fun anyway.6 knot
> climbs, day died at around 1500 hours. regards JR
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I only said the day died, I did not say what caused the day to die..!JR
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-soaring] Boring
Not bad at Millicent, cloudbase was only 2400, but had fun anyway.6 knot
climbs, day died at around 1500 hours. regards JR
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Not bad at Millicent, cloudbase was only 2400, but had fun anyway.6 knot
climbs, day died at around 1500 hours. regards JR
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Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 5:54 PM
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> Great d
Great day at Bacchus Marsh today! starting with some early wave (I missed
out but our early starting CFI had a good flight). Then after lunch the CU's
started popping with cloud base at 4500 and good 5 to 6 knot climbs.
Of course those who read the lousy forecast or who only fly during the
summer
Beverley Soaring Society,
Saturday, April 30
Grey overacast. 17 Flights, before the rain set in, occasionally less than 1
octa cloud at 1,500 AGL, very pretty to tow above.
No lift. Training flights and check rides. Josh Went solo, Liz Suthers did some
more solo flying after a check ride, R
The recent thread about BORING was hilarious.
I don't know if I can lay claim the title (can anyone else?), but it was in
response to some particularly heated discussions on aus-soaring at the end of
2000 and early 2001. The discussions became more personal, white hot and less
related to glidin
Bragging On Recent Interesting Nearby Gliding.
BORING Reports can now be submitted without connotation.
A bad day gliding always beats a good day working, tell us all about em, I
reckon.
Wayne Carter
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> -Original Message-
> From: Mark Newton
> I was dumb enough to spend the day instructing: circuits in 36 deg
> temperatures. Wow. Awe-inspiring. Should do it more often. Not.
Been there, done that.
lating to Soaring in Australia.
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] BORING REPORT - A Stinker of a Day
The dust intensified through the evening: Driving back to Adelaide
after dark was like driving through brown fog, with tumbleweeds jumping
chaotically across the road at 50km/h and the occasional drift of ev
Leigh Bunting wrote:
It sounded like conditions were somewhat different east of the Mt Lofty
ranges. Anyone from Barossa/AUGC/Waikerie like to fill us in?
The wind was about the same, but it didn't start to get badly dusty
until late afternoon.
I was dumb enough to spend the day instructing: circ
In our part of SA, yesterday was a stinker.
The wind at ground level was knocking on 25kts. The sky was brown and
the temp was in the high 30's. Not many turned up at Whitwarta -
surprise, surprise!
I had the first winch launch which topped out at 2000' AGL in the K21.
Although I signaled for l
Soaring Team.
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Simon Hackett wrote:
the simple
Careful Roger.
Ian P.
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Yes, but you would have bought OneTel and HIH instead...
On 11/03/2005, at 12:02 AM, Roger Druce wrote:
2. Closer to home. If I had bought Westpac shares in 1993 instead of
my Janus CT I would now have around about 4 times capital appreciation
on
the shares, ie $600,000 (excluding dividends) from
At 12:02 AM 11/03/05 +1100, you wrote:
>By any measure Mike you underestimate the costs of owning your own glider.
Having owned at least one at a time since 1972 I know you are right!
My post was a response to the "most expensive flying" where for US$200 Mark
Newton had a unique, exciting and une
y, 10 March 2005 10:01 AM
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring inAustralia.
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] BORING in California
At 03:05 PM 9/03/05 +1030, you wrote:
>
>Definitely one of the more memorable experiences of my North American
>trip. Also the most expensive flying I've
Simon Hackett wrote:
the simple metric of taking the hull value and dividing by 1000 to get
the effective hourly rate works quite well.
Hmmm. So I bought my Grunau Baby (airworthy, including trailer) in the
early '70s for $600. What 's that work out to - - 60 cents per hour. :-D
Of course there
Simon says (sorry, couln't resist...)
..."I just quietly put the spreadsheet away and realised that those
calculations were just not going to stop me from indulging in my own
aviation decisions, because I'd already made the decision to own the
thing, whatever the numbers said (and in gliding, clea
Mike Borgelt wrote:
I know a bloke with a Discus 2. Say A$130,000. That's [...]
I tried the same calculations with my Stemme S10-VT once. I already had
such a spreadsheet set up which had been used for my old SF-25C Motorfalke.
So I plugged in the hull value of my S10-VT.
At that point the spread
At 03:05 PM 9/03/05 +1030, you wrote:
>
>Definitely one of the more memorable experiences of my North American
>trip. Also the most expensive flying I've ever done: that 2-hour flight
>cost US$200, including glider hire, instructor hire and tow-plane charter.
>I think the Australian system really
eterS
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Mark, thank you for sharing this wonderful st
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Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 4:35 AM
Subject: [Aus-soaring] BORING in California
Internode sent me to the US to set up our international gateway networks
last month. I took a week and a half of leave at the end of it (why
Internode sent me to the US to set up our international gateway networks
last month. I took a week and a half of leave at the end of it (why
waste it when someone else paid the airfares? :-) and took the opportunity
to do a bit of touring around the Western USA and British Columbia in
Canada.
My f
Saturday was giving 6 knots to 8,500 at Port Augusta. Sunday was a slight improvement
to somewhere above 9,000 (I was flying the concrete swan and by the time we thermalled
9000' I decided it was time to go hunting).
Afraid I just used it for instructional purposes out around Quorn/Wilmington a
te Siddall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [Aus-soaring] BORING
> Sunday started at Renmark with two gliders waiting to be rigged, but we
> didn't have enough people for that until lunchtime. Amid the usual calls
&g
Sunday started at Renmark with two gliders waiting to be rigged, but we
didn't have enough people for that until lunchtime. Amid the usual calls
of "It's not engaged. Move it IN", and "Hurry up, it's heavy" I started
hearing things like "Wow, look at that sky".
Some rapid glider preparation happen
Saturday was giving 6 knots to 8,500 at Port Augusta. Sunday was a slight improvement
to somewhere above 9,000 (I was flying the concrete swan and by the time we thermalled
9000' I decided it was time to go hunting).
Afraid I just used it for instructional purposes out around Quorn/Wilmington a
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Sent: Monday, 20 September 2004 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] BORING
> Michael Texler wrote:
>
> >I'm sure those on the aus-soaring list who are parents can identify with
the
> >above situation.
> >
> >
> All too true, I'
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> >I had a nice 28 minute flight in the Ventus
Michael Texler wrote:
I'm sure those on the aus-soaring list who are parents can identify with the
above situation.
All too true, I'm afraid.
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Leigh Bunting
Colonel Light Gardens
South Australia
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