On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 08:39:33PM +0930, Leigh Bunting wrote: > A day you seem to have been able to have gone anywhere in a glider. As > it wasn't me, did anyone have the chance to use what appeared to be the > best soaring day in years? Yup :-)
I drove out to Waikerie this morning and bugged Mark Morgan for a conversion to their Discus 2BT. The day rocked. I lost count of the number of turnpoints I zipped through around the Riverland area, from Veitch in the South East to Pelican Point and Blanchetown in the North West, and Maggea and Wunkar in the South. There were two downsides. One was the appalling Cambridge in the Discus (I'll have to talk to Mark about that - It seemed like it wasn't compensated, because it went ballistic every time I pulled up; Made it rather difficult to work out average climb rates, and the audio was almost useless). The other one was the fact that the owner has stipulated that convertees carry out two air-starts before going cross country, so I couldn't claim my gold badge from the flight. So I made up for those annoyances by spending nearly four hours having the best time I've had all year. God it sucks to be on holidays sometimes. But not today :-) - mark -------------------------------------------------------------------- I tried an internal modem, [EMAIL PROTECTED] but it hurt when I walked. Mark Newton ----- Voice: +61-4-1620-2223 ------------- Fax: +61-8-82231777 ----- _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring