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NEWS  September2009: 19 Congratulation !! The
Gliding Federation of Australia has awarded Anne the 2009 JR (Bob)
Muller award for making the most
outstanding contribution to the promotion or publicity of gliding in
the past year. Anne is the GFA sub-editor of the Soaring Australia
magazine. September2009: 16 It was cerebration dinner today.
Anne
Shinzo
Andrew
KeithAndrew First Solo, 23 T/O, 5.5 hours in only 5 days.  June2009: 28 "GrandPrix 2008" Photo Album now on the web. June2009: 8 "Baron Hilton Cup 2005 report" now on the web. May2009:11 Shinzo moved to France from Japan, He flew at St.Auban and enjoyed Province wine and cheese.   May2009:6 Shinzo visited Kuju (Kyusyu in Japan) for Advance training. Kuju is famous mountain flying area in Japan.  March2009:16 Last day of this season with
pilots from UK and Japan.
Keith and Shinzo are happy
because of a lot of great
flights and no accident.
photo by Anne Elliott
 January2009:7  Koichi’s mighty 750km flight on January 6 was celebrated with fellow pilots and crew: Wendy, CFI Shinzo, tuggie Keith, Jenny, Trevor, Koichi, Harry, (front row) Fumio, Tomo and Haruhiko. Trevor completed his first 1000km flight on the day and Harry flew his ninth 1000km task. Congratulations to Koichi from all his Aussie and Japanese friends. January2009:6 An
early morning 66th birthday celebration for Soar Narromine
tuggie Keith Dixon.  Koichi has completed 750KM, we hurry to the restaurant for beer, beer, beer.  December2008:5 Willy's Report Comments from the pilot: Willy 11/Nov This is my 5th trip to Narromine for glider flights. Every time I come here I discover new things, on this trip I had rented the ASW20b. The ASW20b was the first flapped aircraft I ever flew, and I have to say that I enjoyed every second of it. It climbs very smooth in lift, and glides very well with the flaps. On day 1 I had a nice local flight and on day 2, I was already flying 300km. I can certainly recommend Soar Narromine for the best weather conditions and best aircrafts. Also, I was able to learn many many things from Shinzo. Thank you very much.  13/Nov Today Shinzo and I rigged the Nimbus 4DM together so I can get some coaching from him. The launch time was delayed to 14:30 due to this, but we had excellent weather with lots of cloud streets. We were flying until 19:00 and managed to fly 500km. I was able to learn about shifting gears (speed/decision making) when conditions were changing rapidly(good and bad).  14/Nov Again we had great weather with thermals up to 9000ft in 10kts!! So we decided to do an out-and-return flight to Queensland. It was the first time for me to fly over mountains here in Australia. The view was excellent and I enjoyed it very much. At 16:30, we were 208km away from Narromine, and the weather wasn't getting any better, so Shinzo was flying instead of me, but I managed to learn lots from watching his flight. I learned that all that matters for a good pilot is the basics and the decision making. I noticed that Shinzo was sleeping in the back seat of the Nimbus 4DM from time to time yesterday, but not today.  16/Nov I was flying the ASW20b today. A cold-front just went by yesterday, so I didn't think we would have good weather, but I was wrong! Shinzo taught me to take-off the earliest amongst the other pilots and fly as long as I can. So I did this, and by 17:30 thermals started to become very weak, and everyone else started to land. After this the wind became a bit stronger, and a cumulus wave started to form. The cloud base was 8000ft, but I was able to climb all the way to 10000ft above the clouds in the wave!! It was a very nice view, and I wish I was there longer. One more thing I learned today was that imagination is very important for soaring, Thank you Shinzo! Willy   August2008:8 My big brothers' family visited Narromine! Three brothers were together in Narromine in 14, July. 15, July : They flew one hour each with me on Nimbus 4DM. 6,000feet Cu condition. They said " like a bird !" 16, July : Sky travel in Australia. We flew together on Maule around Narromine. They said " wide !! "   July2008:5 Cloud street near Trangie
tracking to Collie, 6000feet, 0 degree.
 Narromine
has no season-off for Gliding !!October 2007:28 Shinzo and Haruka Kise(project
suporter) ride Morning Glory by Nimbus 4DM on 28th
October.
  October 2007:4 Winter Session 2007 : Data Number of Flight 195
Hours of Flight 119
Gliders ASK-21 ASTIR３B Hornet
Discus ASW20B Discus2A Duo Discus
October 2007:4 At the last day of Winter
Session in this yesr, Anthony First Solo !!
August 2007:29-
August: Congratulation
!! Shinya : First Single-seater, Hayato : First Solo !He received the mother's congratulation. His mother, Dagmarl is an advanced pilot.  Anthony & Dagmarl   August 2007:7-
August: We have
started "Winter Session 2007" Many students are enjoying between beautiful green field and blue sky with
good Cu ! December
2006:30 December:
We completed an FAI Triangle 1000km flight. Not only did we have a big
flight, we also enjoyed the western NSW countryside - Markus and
Michael. The October
2006: June
2006: March
2006: Flying
in the French Alps from St Auban with Shinzo is now booked out.
The
Nimbus 4 DM's engine has been modified with a clutch which should
protect the engine belt from being torn apart in future. The
clutch was fitted with help of Tracy Tabart who came from Pictured
Shinzo about to test fly the Nimbus 4 DM.
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