Well I said "Watch this Space" for membership ideas...SO it looks like the Fijian Gliding club (based very close to Tauranga) is going to try a Youth Glide program. The hope is to drive membership (a big issue for any club), provide young people with an opportunity, and to raise general activity levels.
Hopefully in a year or so these young people will be driving us "oldies" crazy with high speeds finishes, lots of applications for contests, land-outs and new ideas. When the average age of gliding pilots is approaching that of a NZ First Supporter any young people will come as a breath of fresh air.
It appears some flying was possible on Wednesday. We are picking kiwifruit at present so I didn't even notice. Today was a little blue and the graphs had predicted that. Needed 20 plus degrees to get any real thermal/cloud development. Weekend looks doubtful although late sunday may bring some wave.
We spend our time worrying about westerly wave...of course went he wind blows the other way you get Easterly Wave on the Waikato side of the Kaimai's. What does this look like???
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