Before Xmas our short-lived CFI (having been battered to death, listed as one of the 3 most dubious pilots in the club, and an Aussie to boot) was regarded as an unsafe choice to fly the Duo.
Some-one even suggested that his out-landings could be regarded as arrivals...however the track-log I posted on this blog of his text book out-landing in the upper Waikato last summer (of course we might be reading the wrong text-book) resolved that issue...no more has been heard of this issue...thankfully. http://discuscs.blogspot.com/2011/11/text-book-land-out.html
So last night we had an interesting development...let me set the scene...
No-one had put their hand up to fly the Duo in the Nationals...I might have by giving up GNM for the trans-Tasman but logic bubbled to the top...why do I own a glider??? So I can fly it when I want to...especially in Contests.
Therefore the onus was on our new CFI...
Suddenly our friendly Aussie wasn't so bad after all....he's great, he can take the Duo, he can out-land it, he can loop it and fly it inverted...well maybe not the last one...
Something doesn't add up...but maybe I missed something along the way..maybe said Aussie did lots of practise flights in the Duo over the Xmas period...in the rain...
Which ever way you cut the mustard he is as competent as anybody else who sat around that table last night to enter the Duo in the contest...now all I have to do is beat him...
On a brighter note...there is some nice photo's on Phil's blog from the Club Class Nationals in Omarama... http://omarama.net/blog.html
Don't go looking for the results on Soaring Spot...that technology hasn't breached the Cook Strait yet...try here - http://glidingcomps.42.net.nz/nat2012/index.php
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