The weather is improving, in parts! Rain, wind and even snow in some areas but this has been interspersed with some fine sunny days and it looks like a few of the lucky ones (read "retired" or "on holiday") are taking the opportunity to go to the field for a fly. Vale - Ronald "Peter" Miller It seems we are hardly getting through another month and I have to report the ... Read More
Hangar Talk – September 2020
How lucky are we here in Tasmania! We had about 3 months of a lockdown with what we thought were difficult but necessary restrictions on our normal day to day life. Spare a thought now for our Victorian neighbours. Having said that, a lot of the people I speak to say let's not open our borders too soon. I'll open this blog with a request for members to send me material for ... Read More
Hangar Talk – May 2020
COVID-19 Another month and another month of isolation. However, there appears to be light at the end of the tunnel with some easing of restrictions; restaurants partially reopening, kids returning to school and for some of us - the reopening of the field! On May 22, after receiving revised advice from the government, the committee decided to reopen the field on the ... Read More
Hangar Talk – April 2020
COVID-19 Who would have predicted the situation Australia and the world is in now. If you watched any of the disaster movies like "Contagion" released in 2011, it seemed fanciful at the time and over the top Hollywood drama. Yet now reports are that Contagion accurately foretold what coronavirus would look like. In a 2015 speech, Bill Gates warned that the greatest ... Read More
Hangar Talk – December 2019
Christmas Lunch & Fly-In - Saturday, December 14 The weather gods were somewhat kind to us and the Christmas Lunch and fly-in was a great success. If the numbers present were any indication, it seems that our members, their guests and friends were also looking forward to this event, particularly as they have been few and far between this year due to excess wind - nothing to ... Read More