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President’s Report
While the cooler months have meant a slowdown of flying
activity at the club over the last couple of months, there has been a
flurry of activity as follows;
• Form 2 Maintenance Week - The club held our annual
maintenance week in the last week of August expertly organised by
our Airworthiness Officer John Trezise. This week saw the forms 2
being completed on much of the club fleet, and many of the private
gliders.
Special thanks goes to John and all the members who were able
to assist during the week. These efforts go along way to ensuring
that the club can keep its fleet maintenance costs at a manageable
level and certainly is at a considerable saving to sending the fleet
off-site for this work. Thanks again to all involved!
• Working Bee - We held a working bee on Saturday 29th of
August, where many members assisting with fixing many of the
niggles around the club. These included replacing the northern
windsock, mowing the emergency strip and placing markers in
front of the trees, replacing the ceiling boards in the flight centre,
cleaning out the roofing gutters etc. Big thanks to all those who
participated.
• Club & Sports Class Nationals - With the Nationals now just
over a month away, there has been a fair amount of preparation
going into making sure that this event is a big success. As you can
imagine, there are literally hundreds of things to do to make sure
everything works like clockwork, and we need many volunteers to
help run this event.
So if you can spare some time in November to assist, please
contact Dave or Jenny. Better still, we still have a couple of places
available in the comp and it would be great to see our whole fleet
utilised in the event. So get involved!
• Club CFI - It is with great regret that John Hoye has tendered
his resignation to the Committee for his role as CFI. John has offered
to temporarily remain in the role until a suitable replacement can
be found. The Committee and members of LKSC would like to
thank John for his great efforts while in the CFI role, and note his
diligence and perseverance will be sorely missed.
Over the weekend of Friday 25th to Sunday 27th of September,
10 members of the Warringah Radio Control Society (WRCS) visited
LKSC. A great weekend of flying was had by all, albeit in some
difficult flying conditions.
Friday was a magic "Keepit" day, however on Saturday the dust
arrived (again) and we could only see a couple of hundred metres
till about 2pm. However later in the day a blustery 20 knot+ wind
arrived which caused the model pilots a bit of grief for the rest of
Saturday and all day Sunday.
Each of the WRCS visitors had a fight or two in our gliders, and
everyone thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Many noted that they
would be back! I feel we have made some good friends and they will
likely be back for another club camp in the future.
All the photos can be seen at http://www.wrcs.org.au/
gallery/2009/lake-keepit
One of my favourite pcitures is below.
The videos links are http://www.wrcs.org.au/gallery/videospage-2
Tim Carr, President.
October November 2009
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