Bloody weather...

Making it real hard to get kiwifruit picked. 30% of the way through...still another 8 ha's to go.
Poetry anybody??? Found this from Clive James...ex-pat Australian living in the UK.

The Falcon Growing Old (2010)
Opening Stanza...

The falcon wears its erudition lightly
As it angles down towards its master's glove.
Student of thermals written by the desert,
It scarcely moves a muscle as it rides
A silent avalanche back to the wrist
Where it will stand in wait like a hooded hostage

And towards the end...
Catching the shifting air the way a falcon
Spreads on a secret wave, the outpaced earth.
Left looking powerless.

Correcting for the wobble in the lisp
Of sliding nothingness, the whispering road
That leads you to a dead-heat with your shadow
At the orange-blossom trellis in the oasis.

Actually I'm running out of stuff to add at present. I noted some E-mail traffic last week...member suggests new way of doing things...member gets beaten about the head for presuming to know more than the committee...e-mail traffic stops...So all's well in the world...

For those who watch the regulatory issues that surround aviation, and gliding in particular, you will know CAA have been trying to force Part 115 on adventure aviation.
You just gotta love Gov't bodies...instructors with passengers who are trialling gliding (trial flights) we would need a CPL (G), Class 1 medical and to carry and axe and fire extinguisher...in a glider!!!
Interestingly in all the years we have been doing trial flights, at all the different locations around NZ, in all the varied weather conditions not one passenger has been injured, or worse, killed.

Unfortunately people have been killed parachuting, ballooning, para-gliding...so therefore by typical desk bound logic gliding must be equally unsafe...go figure. I think the reason we have an excellent track record is the standard of our instructors...especially our instructor trainers...well done.