Terrific Times in Temora

I want to share with you the story of my best out-landing to-date. It was late January this year when I was gliding back to Benalla in my Nimbus 3 when an unexpected thunderstorm crossed my path and I was forced to outland at Temora Airfield, NSW. I was familiar with the Temora airfield, having out-landed there six years before. Once I had landed I was surrounded by people willing to assist me and this continued for the entire juration of my stay. I was very touched by the friendly and welcoming atmosphere and arriving just in time for the bbq was a bonus! I expected to leave the next day but unbeknown to me, the storms would continue and I would be unable to return to my home-club for another four days.
So what does one do in Temora to pass four days? As it turns out, a great deal! I decided to make best use of my time and complete a Recreational Aircraft (RA) certificate to compliment my Private Pilot License (PPL). My trainer Jill was very professional and encouraging, and we had a great time. I flew in a new Tecnam Sierra with impressive performance and handling characteristics.
All-in-all my unexpected stay in Temora was a great experience and I highly recommend out-landing there. Many thanks to the people from Temora and Canberra!

Peter Hokkanen

On March 7th & 8th 4 aircraft from Temora Aero Club flew away to Shepparton as part of the Great Air Rally. Rob and Gloria Maslin in the RV6, Sam Richards and Simon Pike in Sam’s RV6, Cat Harmon and Col Richards in the Grumman, and Jill & Norm Bailey in the Tecnam departed Saturday morning for the first stop at Deneliquin. Apart from a small diversion in the Grumman, all aircraft arrived to register and enjoy breakfast before heading off to Echuca, then Bendigo for lunch. The final leg was then to Shepparton for a dinner, with guest speakers regaling the crowd with stories of flying in the South African Air Force and experiences with operations at Rex.

Sunday morning saw a departure to Yarrawonga, which was quieter than expected because of the long weekend in Victoria and a successful return to Temora in the afternoon. A very enjoyable weekend and hopefully the start of more fly away activities for the club.

Sal and Justin Anderson continue to progress well, and are planning a trip for nav-ex’s to Porepunkah in May with both Tecnams.

Congratulations to Mitchell Liebich, who achieved his passenger endorsement on 19th March and took his sister flying on the 20th!

Good to see David Yee back steadily working towards his licence, along with locals Stan Tiedemann and Lloyd Maxwell.

Recent new pilots in training include Brady and Morgan Kenny from Young and a recent POPE (partners of pilots emergency course) graduate Anne-Marie Seve from Sydney. I will be including some great photos Anne-Marie took on future updates.

Another new face recently has been Paul Sheather from Melbourne, who has been doing nav-ex’s in the Tecnam and will return soon.

Congratulations also to Terry and Peter Franke who completed a successful test flight in their Zenith Zodiac 601 recently.  Also seen flying recently is Elvin King’s Lambada, a self launch motor glider and very nice looking aircraft.

Safe flying

Jill

Last Monday a pilot was ferrying a L29 jet to Bathurst and mid afternoon was circling the airport, on closer inspection you could see that the right landing gear had trouble extending. The pilots of the L29 tried for some time to fix the issues at hand to the stage they no alternative but to land.

After burning off all the fuel to help with a safer gear up landing they lined up and bought the L29 in, with a good job done and still managed with all the landing gear issues, The pilot still got it on the center line.
A good out come with only minor damage and no injures to the crew. the plane was moved of the runway and all operations at Temora where back to normal.

Gaer up with good results

G,Day All
This we we have implemented a new way for posts in the blog to be done, we inserted Word Press as the blogging engine which allows a bit more freedom for both Jill and Me to post more with the ongoing events.
Hopefully will allow a bit more content to be posted.
Captain Kaos