2016 Flying Season Officially Underway

The 2016 flying season is now underway at GGC as of March 20^th. A rapid and wet thaw last week accelerated the snow melt on the runways to the point of being able to use our paved 26/08 runway to start spring check-outs. Spring checkouts continued throughout the afternoon.

 

A spring “Rust Remover” safety briefing was held in the GGC clubhouse on the morning prior to the commencement of flight operations. 29 GGC pilots attended this briefing, additional briefings will be held in the upcoming weeks. Special thanks to Martin and Jarek for getting the clubhouse warmed up with the wood stove and fireplace.

Citabria Mid-Life Refit

Work has been progressing throughout the winter of 2015- 2016 on the installation of new fuselage fabric and overhaul of the fuselage of our Citabria tow plane.

Martin, Jean-Marc, Tommy combined with an army of other volunteers are now in the final stages of repainting the fresh fabric.

The cockpit has also been extensively refit with new fabric and upholstery. Martin has been teasing that he will want our tow pilots to wear house-slippers when they step in the Citabria later this spring so as to not scratch the newly finished floor boards!

Winter Flying at GGC (Part 2)

Throughout the winter of 2016 Martin, Remi, Karl and Roger did not let a couple feet of snow get in the way of flying, so they adapted and mounted skis on their Aeronca Champ.

Pendleton aerodrome was in business most weekends with the mighty 65 hp Continental powered Champ sliding up and down the snow covered runways.