Monday, October 02, 2006

A day in the life of a cross country pilot


Well, now that you’ve seen photos and description of Wilfried’s adventures, here is one about Luke. Apparently this is the readers digest version. Luke decided on a 300km trip to Lucan, Dundalk and return and during part of the journey Luke had hooked up with Jerzy. Having gotten low near Toronto Soaring Club at around 5pm Luke thought he might not get back and Jerzy decided to head back to SOSA to prepare the retrieve. Luke did manage to land safely and Tomas Rezek and Andy Mazur returned for the retrieve but it was after midnight. Luke had instructed that the Cobra trailer was for the Ls4 but he suddenly remembered about 10 minutes before Tomas and Andy arrived that there were two Cobra trailers at SOSA. Needless to say they had the wrong one. Tomas Rezek Mira and Andy Mazur who volunteered as crew (wow!! thanks guys) and had a long journey back to get the correct one (even bigger - thanks guys) . The photo shows the farmer hauling the Ls4 Cobra trailer out of his field at 3:00am. Luke arrived back at SOSA at about 6:00 am and then went straight to work. He later told me that the icing to the story was that this was his wife’s birthday !!!!!