Not a great themalling day,
except for Rob Williams in Mike Seven, who was still aloft when I left. However,
a reasonably good training day and Daniel Duclos stepped in for Wolfgang in the
morning, and Roger was duty instructor in the afternoon. Also Gord Jeremic and I
did a little extra instructing as we had the ASK-17 (Bluebird) out as well as
the L-23 Super Blanik. I wasn't able to collect all the flight statistics by the
time I left, but in addition to John Schmidt and Robert Pelley, there was also
Nathan a young Air Cadet who has joined our ranks, and who flew in IFX with
Roger. Also waiting to fly was our Pazmany power plane pilot. His aircraft is
stored in our hangar and he joined also this year.
I wasn't on duty, but I had the
pleasure of giving Norman Wong some complete check flights and simulated rope
breaks and then turned him loose on his first solo in the ASK-13. His solo
flight was a picture perfect circuit and landing, and just by chance it was
his
birthday - WELL DONE NORMAN. Kudos to Gordenko who
did some of his recent advanced, pre-solo training, and Wolfgang
who completed his pre-solo paperwork before going off to the Pacific
coast.
Many thanks to Tom Hastie and
Martin Lacasse who did the towing. Martin has some wonderful fishing, tall
stories to tell about his adventures with David Smith in the Cessna amphibian
floatplane, on their recent foray into the Arctic Circle at Great Bear Lake, if
you can prise them out of him over a beer or two..
Regards,
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