THE MICROLAND THREAD..."Home of the Tailwinds"

[BeanCounter]

Boyz...this weekend's weather is predicted to be somewhere between gagapoefies and kakapoopoo....

That's cause it's weekend...is there any other way?
Still a long way off but the first weather prediction I've seen for next Friday to Elands looks muuuuucchh better. Here's holding thumbs

[mulderpm]

it is the perfect day to test my tiedown kit in prep for next week

Bundy you aint goin nowhere if ur testing ur tie down kit

We had our Year end funtion at ML today. No flying for me but I should have

4 prospective students went for a demo flight, thanks to our masters Fanie & Merv, they had a great time. 3 will be back, one not..... "too much wind in my face...oooooow"

[mulderpm]

Check this scew landing. Dionne in a 15 mph wind with Fanie...shame she/he is still rattled

[Bundy]

Not as rattled as my last "landing" with him!

Well The Beautiful Dawn is now ready for Hurricane Katrina... (no not really)

Pre made my tie down "hitching ropes" and set the whole thing up nicely...bought a whole lot of ratchet cams which make it a nice and straight forward process. Moved the ropes inside the wing inspections to the correct position. Bundy's grippa system works like a charm.

Elands...here we come.

[mulderpm]

Thanks Al for BM's no. We will drive out with his bakkie and buy the amount of fuel we need when we get there . He has a couple of cans we can use. WX looks good.

Tallyho Elands here we come

[Bundy]

Morning all,

Herewith the final detail around the planned Elands Trip this weekend.

Confirmed as going:

Bundy
Paul and Dionne Mulder (Require pvt room)
Asterix (Potties)
Jaco and Chantelle (Require pvt room)
Pieter
Louis Cole (Jakkalsdans)
Frank and Sharon Smallwood. (Require Pvt room)

We are flying one of two ways:

1: Direct FABA to Elands Camp 70NM
2: FABA -LOSKOP-Groblersdal-Elands 93NM

The weather will be the deciding factor here. We plan to be rolling at 5AM on Friday. I will be preflighting and packing the night before to save time. We can meet on the threshold at 04h45 for a final "briefing" and then hit the sky.

Elands Camp is equipped with what we need. All you need is some spare clothes and cash.

Cant wait, gonna be awesome.

[Bundy]

Stef had to pull out unfortunately guys....I will thus be flying both ways.

This means NO GROUND VEHICLE chaps....leave the kitchen sink at home!

See you on Thu evening for "inpak"

[mulderpm]

Will be at ML on Thursday pm to do packing & pre-flight. If we could all meet there at 5 ish then we could discuss the proposed plan. Emergency procedures and radio procedures we will use on route.

No problem with ground support Al, Paul has all the support we need and on route we look out for each other. Pitty Stef can't make it.

[F Smallwood]

Weather forecast now looks terrible for Friday/Saturday, both at OR Thambo and groblersdal. Rain forecast most of the day on both days according to windfinder. Do we make a provisional go/no go decision on Thursday? Here is hoping that the weather improves by Friday.
Cheers Frank

[Bundy]

Yip, we need to see if it changes...but not lookin good.

Have faith...the weatherman cant even get it right over 24 hours...let alone a few days. Weather is so unpredictable at the moment.

[mulderpm]

Not much wind but cloud and possibility of rain. Not good. Lets make the call on Thursday afternoon.

[Bundy]

Hmmmmm.... so who do we have to blame for this?

http://www.yr.no/place/South_Africa/Gau ... /long.html

.....ah yes....the usual suspects.

Still a long way off but the weather prediction I've seen for next Friday to Elands looks muuuuucchh better.

and

WX looks good.

Bliksems!!!!

...But I've learnt to never trust a weatherman....

....here's why!

[mulderpm]

See what positive...positive...positive thought can do

[Bundy]

Holding thumbs, just spoke to Paul and Louis.

I'm still confident we can make it up on Fri Morning with a return on Sunday. I advised Louis to try and ferry through to ML tommorrow morning instead of Thu (which looks horrible) but I leave it up to him to make a call.

Pieter...Frank...waars julle?

There will be a preflight and short "briefing" at ML on THU early evening (about 17h00) for final details. Let's get the trikes packed and fuelled and ready to go come sunrise.

[F Smallwood]

Frank here. I will make every effort to be there at 17:00 on Thursday I may be abit late as I am working in. Ru I managed to get BOG back from the Vaal dam this morning. Left at 05:00 into slightly hazy sky with mist patches in places. Visibility above 500ft over ground was great. About 70 minutes flying time. See you guys on Thursday. Weather forecast looks a little better today. Here's hoping so.
Cheers Frank