Warnbro

I got the best xmas present i could have hoped for, i got to fly my hang glider at warnbo on christmas day!

Oh So Pretty!

MGZ has had some beauty therapy and now her whites are pristine again.
She did need a fair amount of work to make her mechanically 100%
perfect, and now that the paint is also perfect I just have to decide
what to do with the interior. She looks good!

I am going to add some colour and hide that awful green over the next
couple of weeks and she will be a beautiful and eye catching work horse
when I have finished.

Merry Xmas Everyone!

Hot!

Ok, this is really just to test whether the blogger client for my mobile phone works. It was hot today, over 40'c and i spent much of the day at the beach.

Re-Fuelling at Gero

On the way back, the last stop before home.

ominous

We diverted out to the right to give this cloud a wide berth!

High Wing Benefits

Karl loved the high wing, it lets you get excellent shots of the ground below and the fully opening windows make it easy to get great shots like this!

On the Way to Exmouth

This was on the way to Exmouth last week. I was particularly impressed when I recieved an email on my phone about 80NM south of Carnarvon at 6500ft!

Praying Mantis

There was one on the wall by Karls front door. A very interesting creature!

Bakewell

Yesterday afternoon karl and I drove to mt bakewell in york. When we arrived it was on and we wasted no time getting setup and were in the air soon after. I had an awesome flight, I got almost 3000ft above launch at one point by catching thermals out front. Conditions were great I had a couple of 480ft/min climbs when in the core but never anything very rough. It was my first flight there for ages as I have been concentrating on my ga lately. It was dark by the time we had packed up and so we had a late dinner in town before heading back to perth. I love flying!

sent from Rolf's phone.

Woo hoo!

sent from Rolf's phone.

Fremantle Docks

The last photo of the day before we tracked into Jandakot via Powerhouse. It was a fun trip and after my trip around Oz earlier in the year and my dash to Bankstown and back a couple of weeks ago, 6hrs flying time really did not seem like much of an effort.

Perth City

It was about 20mins before last light and taken from abeam Cottesloe.

Passing Observation City

Cool Photos

On the return trip I removed the screw that stops the passenger window from opening fully and Karl got some great shots along the way..

Landing at Exmouth

MGZ

Leaving Exmouth for a quick scenic on Thursday afternoon.

A small one..

Quite a large one

Tasty?

Exmouth

It was a very short trip, arrived on Weds and left again on Friday. Still it was great to catch up with friends and I got a snorkel in and plenty of beer and good food. The Canon survived it's first underwater session and seems to take reasonable shots. There are a couple of things I am going to get fixed on MGZ but once again she performed well. We had tail winds the whole way up and for the return trip managed to stay in the strong NW at 1500ft all the way to Carnarvon, averging 125kt ground speeds. After Carnarvon there were some big CBs along the path but I diverted around them to be safe.

Off to Exmouth for a few days.

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