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Dies Ire As most of you know by now, our wonderful summer tuggie from last year, Tomas Munk, died in a plane crash in Papua on September 9th. The likely cause of the accident was bad weather and only Tomas and the pilot, David Cootes, were involved. Tomas was an outstanding young man, funny, friendly, warm and big-hearted and few of us at Keepit were not touched by his presence at the club, whether it was his professional conduct when flying, his fear of Australian wildlife, followed later by his eagerness to eat it or make friends with or rescue it, and he became a part of many of our lives across that summer. When Tomas left for his new job in Papua, he wrote a long letter to all of us at the club about his experiences in Australia which was published in the May-June issue of Keep Soaring. The letter was at the same time, very funny and very touching. He ended the it by saying thank-you to all the people he’d been involved with at the club… which went on in detail for nearly three pages. Someone said to me at the club, after reading the letter, that it brought a tear to your eye. I might suggest that you read it again, but this time you’ll have tears streaming down your face. The loss of Tomas is terrible for his Australian family, especially Joy and Ian, but mostly for mother, father and sister back in Slovakia. Our thoughts go out to all of them. Dies Ire, the Day of Anger, is part of the sequence of the requiem mass. My favourite is the Dies Ire from the Verdi Requiem which conveys just a fraction of the anger that one feels at times like this. Anger, because we are powerless to do a thing. There’s a point in our lives when death is a shame but when it comes to young people like Tomas, just starting out on their life’s journey, it is a disaster which no faith or philosophy can explain or soften. Most of us have memories of Tomas which make us smile… trailing behind Ian Downes around for the first two weeks like a frightened puppy in case a spider or snake jumped out and bit him… catching a fish from the lake with a shovel and then barbecuing it one lunchtime… tearing along the strip at night trying to run down a kangaroo in time for dinner… There will always be a corner of our foreign field which is a part of Slovakia. And as Tomas’ mother Eva wrote… Tomas will always be with us and we will always be proud of him. Keep Soaring September - October 2011 Page 10
iGlide therefore I am This being the iPad edition of Keep Soaring, it’s only fitting that there is some mention about iPhone and iPad apps for the glider pilot. And with summer and the Safari coming on, the interest is in apps which help cross country soaring. There have always been a lot of apps for both devices which will give you the weather… none of which are particularly notable for content or accuracy including Accuweather… which according to Jim Staniforth, is only called that because HopelesslyInaccurateWeather. com was already taken. However, a welcome newcomer is RASP. Like many apps, RASP repackages the normal blipmaps into a form which is more convenient and quicker than using a web browser… it is a lot faster to start RASP and open a blipmap than to start Safari and navigate to the right page… it probably uses less data too which is a good thing if you are at the club or somewhere in the bush and paying for data downloads on a 3G connection. The map colours do appear a bit gloomy. The king-hitter app right now has to be Ozrunways… that is, if you want to go real cross country soaring. The app was recommended to me by both Ian Downes and Marty Kahout our new occasional tuggie as an ERSA replacement. Marty has said that it’s the app which will force him to buy an iPad (albeit reluctantly). Ozrunways is called an “electronic flight bag” meaning that it contains almost everything you would have in a real flight bag except cigs and sarnies. Though the app is free, you pay an annual subscription of about $75 for which you can download the entire set of Airservices Australia documents including all of ERSA and all Airservices maps with one WAC covering all of Australia and all ERCs etc. All these can be downloaded to an iPhone or iPad using a home connection so you don’t need to have any internet connection to use almost all of Ozrunways to the full. Ideally, you have a 3G iPad with an internal GPS or you can attach an external GPS via wire or bluetooth. There are rumours that you can also use your iPhone GPS to power a non-GPS equipped iPad. Keep Soaring September - October 2011 Page 11
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