Day 1 ends

SOrry for the delay for the night owls wanting an update.
This body was knackered and hit the hay at 10:30pm after seeing my last "pigeon" home.

XN arrived back after an aerotow retrieve from Mesopotamia. TM decided to give his crew night driving excercise and a road retrieve to Mesopotamia. A visiting American NB decided to land on a "JET" strip and get a tour of the luxury hunting lodge at Lillybank, while the crew of NS decided to "lob" in to Mt Cook main airstrip for a break before aerotowing home.

GUN after the launch mishaps popped in to the Dingleburn station to give a couple of local visitors wing running practice while GO found a very large paddock near Tarras for a Road retrieve. THis after loosing his radio and Texting Ops normals. A resourceful lad.

Google Earth and Google maps are providing stirling service. Must remember to tell paddock landout pilots directions to nearest house(as seen on google earth).

SPOT messenger service is working well. Some might have noticed that YY & HL were at Lake Pukaki for some time. Nope they were on a quick trip home and got on the ground and SPOT switched off before the next ping was generated. Dang but flying wave on final glide gives for some quick arrivals.

The hardluck story of the day so far heard was OI having to return from Leg 2 after having a canopy latch come undone(while twisting body to open oxygen valve) and being unable to secure it again. I have seen the brusises on his elbows. No denying he gave it his best shot in trying to wangle all things possible.

So we still have 37 pilots able to fly today. Off to task setters meeting with Gavin, Gee and Lemmy). Tomorrow it appears we might have a guest tasksetter as well. More when and if it happens.

Keep it up!