Re: [Aus-soaring] Darling Downs weather forecast for 5 - 6 March 2011

2011-03-02 Thread Bob Flood
H.. Flame proof jacket firmly buttoned... Interesting comment; considering not a single flight from the club field between 14th Dec and 22nd Jan. Fortunately a number of members flew the comp at Benalla and helped to make up for that. I looked at the numbers a bit closer and found.

Re: [Aus-soaring] Darling Downs weather forecast for 5 - 6 March 2011

2011-03-02 Thread Roger Druce
Robert, The cheek of it all!! The OLC result you point to is re speed. However if you look at OLC-Plus, which is what realy matters, one sees that Beverley and GCV Benalla have trounced you lot. Moreover if you took away Alan Barnes where would you lot be!! Roger Druce On 3/03/2011 7:56 AM, R

[Aus-soaring] Darling Downs weather forecast for 5 - 6 March 2011

2011-03-02 Thread Robert Hart
Hi folks The weekend forecast is available at http://the-white-knight-speaks.blogspot.com and it does not look very promising at this stage. I will update tomorrow as usual. Fortunately, south east Queensland has received enough soarable weather since the d

Re: [Aus-soaring] John Viney

2011-03-02 Thread gstevo10
A very perceptive comment from one who knows! Gary - Original Message - From: C K To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 9:45 PM Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] John Viney Lets hope that they find someone suitable who can handl

Re: [Aus-soaring] John Viney

2011-03-02 Thread C K
Lets hope that they find someone suitable who can handle the workload of both Ops and Airworthiness (and internal politics). Maybe it is easier in the GFA due to the low number of members and aircraft, though it would not be possible at RA-Aus and I can't see Edwin being overly enthusiastic to hagg

Re: [Aus-soaring] John Viney

2011-03-02 Thread gstevo10
In fact, if you actually read Phil's report he tells you that for the time being airworthiness admin. matters to the office, technical matters to Edwin Grech-Cumbo. It couldn't be clearer. How to contact Edwin and just when he will be available to discuss things technical is another issue all to