Here just outside Brisbane
(Caboolture) we had a great w/e too. I flew Sunday and had 6 AEI flights
with all 30 minutes plus from gentle blue thermals. View of Brisbane was
fantastic. Saturday was the same.
Middle of winter @ 26 degrees
C max! Who would live anywhere else
PeterS
What Robert has written is what I like about old fashioned gliding clubs.
When it works, it is great but it sure can be misused by those "takers" of
this world who turn up, use the Club and put nothing back. and want a
MacDonalds Gliding Club.
One wishes one could get new members to sign a contra
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 07:45:58AM +1000, David Olsen wrote:
> North Queensland, winter soaring heaven!!
At Lochiel on Sunday we had John Whittington visit for an Ops Check,
as well as to upgrade one of our instructors to Level 2. He'd never
been ridge soaring before, so we were able to give
On 27 Jun, Mike Borgelt wrote:
> I can just see it now. A pilot in an oxygen equipped glider on a good day
> breaks off his climb at 12000 feet because his high altitude rating isn't
> current any more. A little later he lands out because his ridge soaring
> rating has lapsed and he doesn't use t
On 24 Jun, Dav wrote:
> These so called people who accept responsibility should remember the
> responsibility to an organisation that probably provided the infrastructure
> for them to learn to fly in the first place. After all when YOU learnt to
> fly it was because of past instructors efforts
Time for some talk of flying. North Queensland
Soaring Centre members arrived at the field, greeted by a cold and very
windy day. There were students galore and three AEFs so circuits seemed to be
the order of the day.
By mid day the wind dropped and it was clear that
moderate thermals wer
At 12:37 AM 2/07/02 +1000, you wrote:
>also resolve certain issues that have been raised by the ACCC in relation
>to some sport aviation pilot certificates.
Tell us more about this!
but
>still that is why Australia leads the world in the area of setting safety
>standards for sport and recr
At 08:03 01-07-02 +1000, Derek Ruddock wrote:
>Mike,
>Just out of interest, why was the old 'Restricted PPL' abolished?
>
>If all this brouhaha is to overcome the limitations of the restricted PPl,
>why not just re-introduce it?
Derek and others
The pressure 11 years ago was to make the PPL fit
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> Err, Andrew, that's some pretty weird HTML / XML in your e-mail.
Looked fine here using Netscape Communicator 4.61 for OS/2 Warp
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Leigh Bunting
Colonel Light Gardens
South Australia
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