January 19, 2012
January 2012 saw the return of Orange Week to the Waikerie skies. Under the directorship of John Hudson the twelve pilots sought to maximise their flying fun with some even electing to add spice to their tasks by risking “Fresh” class. Some wont do that again. Overall winner and recipient of the “Orange Week” trophy …
January 10, 2012
Friday 6/1/12 Orange Week Day 4 – Winner Grant Hudson, LS4a After the trials of flying dry in fresh class the day before, Craig and I went straight back to Juicing Class for day 4 and I elected to fly wet, adding 50 litres of water to the LS4. The task was back to basics …
January 7, 2012
Friday 6/1/12 TASK – AST, start WKI Finish 1.0km, Peebinga 500m cylinder, Lindsay River 500m cylinder, finish WKI Finish 3km. Distance 298.9km. DAY SCORE CALCULATION PILOT NAME STATUS TIME AST SPEED km/h H/CAP ADJUST H/CAP SCORE km/h DAY SCORE POINTS HOHMANN, Art L HORTON, Andrew J, D 3:57:38 75.5 1.100 83.1 2 HUDSON, Alan L …
January 7, 2012
Winner of Juicing Class – Andrew Horton, Mosquito The arrangement Colin and I came up with when we got the Mozzie is that each one of us would crew for the other, whatever comp we went to. We’ve just come back from the Junior’s at Kingaroy (which was a saga in itself) so it was …
January 6, 2012
TASK JUICING CLASS – 3 hour AAT, start WKI Finish 1.0km, Meribah 20km, Maggea 20km, Taldra 30km, finish WKI Finish 3km FRESH CLASS – 3 hour AAT, start WKI Finish 1.0km, Meribah 20km, Maggea 20km, Taldra 500m cylinder, finish WKI Finish 3km. Pilots are not to fly in exclusion zone within 20km of Cobdobla. DAY …
January 6, 2012
Day 2 (Wednesday 4th January), Winner – Craig Vinall, AS G29E After the great weather of Monday, Tuesday was cancelled due to mid-level cloud and cooler conditions. Wednesday presented us with strong southerlies and cooler conditions. The day was forecast to be soarable, but with maximum heights of 5000ft. An AAT task was set of …
January 5, 2012
DAY 1 TASK – Pilot determined free distance OLC-Plus, return to WKI no later than 2000 CSDST. DAY 1 SCORE CALCULATION PILOT NAME STATUS OLC DIST km OLC FAI km OLC points H/CAP ADJUST H/CAP SCORE DAY SCORE POINTS HOHMANN, Art J, W 365.91 339.6 467.79 1.010 472.47 8 HORTON, Andrew J, W 457.39 170.7 …
January 5, 2012
Day 1(Monday 2nd January), Winner – Craig Vinall, AS G29E The weather forecast was for a strong day over the western ranges. It looked like a classic trough day and sure enough the cu’s stated popping around noon. My plan was to fly to the clouds just north of the airspace step at Eudunda (12500ft) …
August 27, 2011
The August issue of “Out of the Blue”, the club newsletter, is here (PDF, 770 kB). Report on the AGM, new constitution accepted, thoughts about future directions. AS K21 refinish, events next summer, an innovative spin kit.
May 3, 2011
AGM and Awards Presentation, Saturday 14 May 2011 0900 hrs: Training Panel meeting 1030 hrs: Daily Briefing. It will be a great flying day, so be there early. 1100 hrs: Flying 1600 hrs: WGC AGM. Welcome some past members and participate in the Club Constitution update. 1730 hrs: Drinks at the bar 1830 hrs: Dinner …
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