Michael Sommer saw the clouds down south and took the club's LS7 for some exercise! Michael ended up 20 kilometres past Falls Creek at 10,000 feet! He was looking down on the skiers! Well done Michael!

AWPA monthly meeting held at State gliding centre Benalla

Dadswells Bridge opening weekend is on this weekend - 7th to 9th of June.

There is also a new web page, including Google Maps of the airfield and more: http://www.glidingclub.org.au/flying/away/dadswells/

Has been released.

Has been released.

Yes folks, it happened Jutta is solo, and no she did not expect the bucket of water on the field :-)

Beau and Michael went solo on Friday!!!

Michael preparing for his first solo flight

Contest day 6 task - 2 hour AAT 158km/313km - Rennie (20km) Tocumwal a/d (20km) Dookie (20km).

Launch was delayed until 2pm; it was a very tough day - weak and thermals were not going high. There was wave at the start up to 8,500' but after that, conditions were mainly weak with low climbs to about 4,000'. It was a mixed day with some pilots reporting the odd 6,000'. There were 5 outlandings.

Frustrated with always coming last, Phil Henderson employed a secret weapon in the Duo Discus - world champion pilot, Michael Sommer. Phil reported that "Michael was invaluable ballast, which is why I managed a second for the day"! (Actually, Phil had declared a lay day.)

Day 6 winners were David Wilson (84.9kph), Bruce Cowan (75.4kph) Allan Barnes 76.1kph).

For day results go to: http://www.glidingclub.org.au/competition/state2008/results/

Overall placings for the competition (day scores averaged):

Open class

1 Tony Tabart 929.0 points

2 David Wilson 888.6

3 Bob Fox 871.1

4 Max Kirschner 633.3

5 Phil Henderson

Standard class

1 Allan Barnes 947.6

2 Toby Geiger 932.8

3 Peter Gray 791.6

4 Simon Brown 566.6

5 Gary Allbutt 541.2

6 Louise O'Grady 283.9

15 metre class

1 Bruce Cowan 886.6

2 Graham Garlick 881.0

3 Tim Wilson 757.6

4 John Switala 713.2

5 Gary Stevenson 687.9

6 Laurie McKinlay 642.9

7 Geoff Vincent

It was Phil Henderson's first comp as director and he thanked all the pilots for being professional and cooperative in difficult hot conditions. Phil acknowledged the vast experience of the whole team, without whom it wouldn't have been such a smooth and safe operation - tuggies, weatherman, task setters, safety officer, marshals and the scorer, Deniz Ture. He thanked John Switala and the Gliding Club of Victoria and everybody associated for the excellent facilities and assistance. Phil said that he "could never have even considered taking on the job without the enormous benefit of Colin Turner's mentoring during previous competitions at Benalla".