Re: [Aus-soaring] a 1000K that went Horribly wrong!
Great yarn. Retrieve stories have filled in many an hour at the bar and I still hear them. Great for a laugh. Adam Woolley wrote: Thought I'd tell you all of my latest retrieving adventure! -- Leigh Bunting Colonel Light Gardens South Australia Open Windows and let the bugs in ___ Aus-soaring mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
[Aus-soaring] a 1000K that went Horribly wrong!
G'day Peoples, Thought I'd tell you all of my latest retrieving adventure! Would love to here if anyone can top this one! So here I go... There I was eating a lovely chilly concarn with lovely company at the Gliding Club of Victoria's clubhouse when the yellow phone wrang. I answered the phone to find out that Jay Rebbeck had outlanded at Wagga Wagga A/D, after flying from YBLA - Coryong - Orange - 50km north on track back to Coryong to divert for what he and I would be a long but easy retrieve. We were to learn otherwise! I got a lift out to the YBLA A/F to pick up his 'Rent-A-Rocket' car, so I could go onwards to Derrick Westwoods house to pick up the multi-purpose trailer keys and be on my way. Got them no drama's, went back, picked up the trailer, grabbed a map and was off in 1/2 hour on a 3hr drive to Wagga. I ended up stopping at Albury to fill up with some gas and grab an ice cream. Jumped back in the car, it wouldn't start! I thought great, this is just what I need! I asked a bloke at the servo for some jumpa leads thinking the battery had failed. He said 'no' but thought he'd have a go at starting 'er. The bugger, jumped in and started it 1st go! So off I went again, when I had to stop, I left 'er running! Got to Wagga at 11:30 pretty smoothly after that, stopped the car and de-rigged Jay's LS-8 under a light next to a Dash 8! Where's a camera when you need one! Jay wanted to drive back, so jumped in, same thing, the buga wouldn't start! Tried every combination to start 'er, doors closed and all! Gave it another couple of minutes, lots of good vibes flowing, and it started! Sweet as, where on our way at 1am! Cruising back no drama's until we got to Albury! We had swapped drivers, I was now driving. We both heard a funny sound coming from the car and thought that we should stop to check it out. About a minute later in the Fast lane on the HUME Hwy, we got a sharp deceleration for a split second followed by us coming to a SCRECHING HALT on all four wheels, both Jay and I hanging in our harnesses! After us getting out of the car saying a few choice words, we ended up gettinmg lucky. We wern't hurt, the car and trailer combination were in one lane, and there wasn't a semi up our tail when it all happened. A bloke stopped on the side of the road to see what was happening, but was of no help and drove off. Soon after the Coppers turned up, to which we were pleased about and said that we shouldn't be here! Really!!! Anyways, the coppers got one of there guys in to tow it off the busy Hwy with semi's cruising past at 80kph! It ended up at a police compound for the night, and we couldn't see it until the next morning at 8am! Jay and I walked a 100meters past 2 other Motels until we came accross a bar! They told us that we couldn't get a beer off the bar, but could have take-away's if we stayed there for the night! We took them up on there offer straight away and downed 4 VB's infornt of a Movie, getting to bed at 5:30am Friday. Woke up the next morning at 7:30, organising a cab to pick us up to take us to the car and glider! Got there no drama's, checked out the scene and luckly had a bite to eat next door. They told the Rent-a-Reck company that it would cost the $150 for last nights tow and a further $350 to tow it back to YBLA. R-a-R said for that price we'll send one of our guys out to pick us up. At 1100, a crappy old Supa Salvage Ford F250 rocked up to tow us home. At 1130 we were on our way again in this, one seatbelt, crappy F250 with a HUGE turning circle! Roughly 5km and 5minutes later, this time on the inside lane of the HUME Hwy still in Albury. We stopped about 150mts from some lights. Then the retrieve car suddenly stopped.. The bloke after just hearing our story, said... oh No, you guys must be ginxed'! At this point, Jay and I were in Fits of Laughter, rolling around in our seats, literally tears flowing down our cheeks! I think we must have been a little crazy at that point after the last nights eppisode and 2 hours sleep! We stopped ourselves from laughing and offered our help, he basically tolds us that we were no help to him and that we should keep ourselves busy. So we basically roamed around Albury looking for jumpa-leads, and people to tow the trailer around the corner to avoid being hit by speeding semi's coming over the hill! We ended up asking Derrick to come to the rescue (1hr from YBLA) as we just wanted to go home, as you could imagine! Jay and I ended up having some MaccyD's while waiting, and learned that the retrieve vehicle was itself being hauled onto another larger retrieve vehicle!! Wish we saw that one, a tripple decker arrangement with a glider trailer on the back! Derrick arrived, we hooked on the trailer and were finally on our way home!!! Thankfully there was no drama's with the good old trusty XD!! Got home at 0330hrs after what I think is just about a world
Re: [Aus-soaring] a 1000K that went Horribly wrong!
Adam The idea of hiring a rent-a-rocket/wreck and using it to tow a glider like an LS-8 sounds laughable and more than a bit risky as you nearly found out. But if the FAI ever create a category for slowest speed around a retrieve task I reckon you're in with a chance, IF, and ONLY IF, you can fit an IGC logger to the rent-a-wreck and have it observed by an official observer. LOL Jason On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:56:37 +1000, Adam Woolley wrote G'day Peoples, Thought I'd tell you all of my latest retrieving adventure! Would love to here if anyone can top this one! So here I go... There I was eating a lovely chilly concarn with lovely company at the Gliding Club of Victoria's clubhouse when the yellow phone wrang. I answered the phone to find out that Jay Rebbeck had outlanded at Wagga Wagga A/D, after flying from YBLA - Coryong - Orange - 50km north on track back to Coryong to divert for what he and I would be a long but easy retrieve. We were to learn otherwise! I got a lift out to the YBLA A/F to pick up his 'Rent-A-Rocket' car, so I could go onwards to Derrick Westwoods house to pick up the multi-purpose trailer keys and be on my way. Got them no drama's, went back, picked up the trailer, grabbed a map and was off in 1/2 hour on a 3hr drive to Wagga. I ended up stopping at Albury to fill up with some gas and grab an ice cream. Jumped back in the car, it wouldn't start! I thought great, this is just what I need! I asked a bloke at the servo for some jumpa leads thinking the battery had failed. He said 'no' but thought he'd have a go at starting 'er. The bugger, jumped in and started it 1st go! So off I went again, when I had to stop, I left 'er running! Got to Wagga at 11:30 pretty smoothly after that, stopped the car and de-rigged Jay's LS-8 under a light next to a Dash 8! Where's a camera when you need one! Jay wanted to drive back, so jumped in, same thing, the buga wouldn't start! Tried every combination to start 'er, doors closed and all! Gave it another couple of minutes, lots of good vibes flowing, and it started! Sweet as, where on our way at 1am! Cruising back no drama's until we got to Albury! We had swapped drivers, I was now driving. We both heard a funny sound coming from the car and thought that we should stop to check it out. About a minute later in the Fast lane on the HUME Hwy, we got a sharp deceleration for a split second followed by us coming to a SCRECHING HALT on all four wheels, both Jay and I hanging in our harnesses! After us getting out of the car saying a few choice words, we ended up gettinmg lucky. We wern't hurt, the car and trailer combination were in one lane, and there wasn't a semi up our tail when it all happened. A bloke stopped on the side of the road to see what was happening, but was of no help and drove off. Soon after the Coppers turned up, to which we were pleased about and said that we shouldn't be here! Really!!! Anyways, the coppers got one of there guys in to tow it off the busy Hwy with semi's cruising past at 80kph! It ended up at a police compound for the night, and we couldn't see it until the next morning at 8am! Jay and I walked a 100meters past 2 other Motels until we came accross a bar! They told us that we couldn't get a beer off the bar, but could have take-away's if we stayed there for the night! We took them up on there offer straight away and downed 4 VB's infornt of a Movie, getting to bed at 5:30am Friday. Woke up the next morning at 7:30, organising a cab to pick us up to take us to the car and glider! Got there no drama's, checked out the scene and luckly had a bite to eat next door. They told the Rent-a- Reck company that it would cost the $150 for last nights tow and a further $350 to tow it back to YBLA. R-a-R said for that price we'll send one of our guys out to pick us up. At 1100, a crappy old Supa Salvage Ford F250 rocked up to tow us home. At 1130 we were on our way again in this, one seatbelt, crappy F250 with a HUGE turning circle! Roughly 5km and 5minutes later, this time on the inside lane of the HUME Hwy still in Albury. We stopped about 150mts from some lights. Then the retrieve car suddenly stopped.. The bloke after just hearing our story, said... oh No, you guys must be ginxed'! At this point, Jay and I were in Fits of Laughter, rolling around in our seats, literally tears flowing down our cheeks! I think we must have been a little crazy at that point after the last nights eppisode and 2 hours sleep! We stopped ourselves from laughing and offered our help, he basically tolds us that we were no help to him and that we should keep ourselves busy. So we basically roamed around Albury looking for jumpa-leads, and people to tow the trailer around the corner to avoid being hit by speeding semi's coming over the hill! We ended up asking Derrick to
RE: [Aus-soaring] a 1000K that went Horribly wrong!
Hi Ya Adam, Nice tale. As they say Its moments like these I am however, interested in the details of: After us getting out of the car saying a few choice words, we ended up gettinmg lucky. Well, on second thoughts, maybe I am not that interested... :-) Cya Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Woolley Sent: Saturday, 31 January 2004 9:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Aus-soaring] a 1000K that went Horribly wrong! G'day Peoples, Thought I'd tell you all of my latest retrieving adventure! Would love to here if anyone can top this one! So here I go... There I was eating a lovely chilly concarn with lovely company at the Gliding Club of Victoria's clubhouse when the yellow phone wrang. I answered the phone to find out that Jay Rebbeck had outlanded at Wagga Wagga A/D, after flying from YBLA - Coryong - Orange - 50km north on track back to Coryong to divert for what he and I would be a long but easy retrieve. We were to learn otherwise! I got a lift out to the YBLA A/F to pick up his 'Rent-A-Rocket' car, so I could go onwards to Derrick Westwoods house to pick up the multi-purpose trailer keys and be on my way. Got them no drama's, went back, picked up the trailer, grabbed a map and was off in 1/2 hour on a 3hr drive to Wagga. I ended up stopping at Albury to fill up with some gas and grab an ice cream. Jumped back in the car, it wouldn't start! I thought great, this is just what I need! I asked a bloke at the servo for some jumpa leads thinking the battery had failed. He said 'no' but thought he'd have a go at starting 'er. The bugger, jumped in and started it 1st go! So off I went again, when I had to stop, I left 'er running! Got to Wagga at 11:30 pretty smoothly after that, stopped the car and de-rigged Jay's LS-8 under a light next to a Dash 8! Where's a camera when you need one! Jay wanted to drive back, so jumped in, same thing, the buga wouldn't start! Tried every combination to start 'er, doors closed and all! Gave it another couple of minutes, lots of good vibes flowing, and it started! Sweet as, where on our way at 1am! Cruising back no drama's until we got to Albury! We had swapped drivers, I was now driving. We both heard a funny sound coming from the car and thought that we should stop to check it out. About a minute later in the Fast lane on the HUME Hwy, we got a sharp deceleration for a split second followed by us coming to a SCRECHING HALT on all four wheels, both Jay and I hanging in our harnesses! After us getting out of the car saying a few choice words, we ended up gettinmg lucky. We wern't hurt, the car and trailer combination were in one lane, and there wasn't a semi up our tail when it all happened. A bloke stopped on the side of the road to see what was happening, but was of no help and drove off. Soon after the Coppers turned up, to which we were pleased about and said that we shouldn't be here! Really!!! Anyways, the coppers got one of there guys in to tow it off the busy Hwy with semi's cruising past at 80kph! It ended up at a police compound for the night, and we couldn't see it until the next morning at 8am! Jay and I walked a 100meters past 2 other Motels until we came accross a bar! They told us that we couldn't get a beer off the bar, but could have take-away's if we stayed there for the night! We took them up on there offer straight away and downed 4 VB's infornt of a Movie, getting to bed at 5:30am Friday. Woke up the next morning at 7:30, organising a cab to pick us up to take us to the car and glider! Got there no drama's, checked out the scene and luckly had a bite to eat next door. They told the Rent-a-Reck company that it would cost the $150 for last nights tow and a further $350 to tow it back to YBLA. R-a-R said for that price we'll send one of our guys out to pick us up. At 1100, a crappy old Supa Salvage Ford F250 rocked up to tow us home. At 1130 we were on our way again in this, one seatbelt, crappy F250 with a HUGE turning circle! Roughly 5km and 5minutes later, this time on the inside lane of the HUME Hwy still in Albury. We stopped about 150mts from some lights. Then the retrieve car suddenly stopped.. The bloke after just hearing our story, said... oh No, you guys must be ginxed'! At this point, Jay and I were in Fits of Laughter, rolling around in our seats, literally tears flowing down our cheeks! I think we must have been a little crazy at that point after the last nights eppisode and 2 hours sleep! We stopped ourselves from laughing and offered our help, he basically tolds us that we were no help to him and that we should keep ourselves busy. So we basically roamed around Albury looking for jumpa-leads, and people to tow the trailer around the corner to avoid being hit by speeding semi's coming over the hill! We ended up asking Derrick to come to the rescue (1hr from
