VOLUNTEERS A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

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Slipstream T H E D A R L I N G D O W N S A E R O C L U B N E W S L E T T E R The Christmas Edition 2018 Mutze St Toowoomba Airport Ph: 07 4634 2777 THE DARLING DOWNS AERO CLUB WOULD LIKE TO WISH

1 Slipstream T H E D A R L I N G D O W N S A E R O C L U B N E W S L E T T E R The Christmas Edition 2018 Mutze St Toowoomba Airport Ph: THE DARLING DOWNS AERO CLUB WOULD LIKE TO WISH MEMBERS, STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR TRADING DDAC will be closing Monday the 24 th December 4.30pm (Closed Christmas Day) Reopen Wednesday 26 th December 8.00am subject to bookings Page 1

SATURDAY & SUNDAY COMP/FUN DAYS 2019 DATE Sun, 27th January Sun, 24th February Sun, 31st March Sun, 28th April Sat, 18th May Sat, 15th June Sat, 20th July Sun, 25th August Sun, 29th September Sun,

2 SATURDAY & SUNDAY COMP/FUN DAYS 2019 DATE Sun, 27th January Sun, 24th February Sun, 31st March Sun, 28th April Sat, 18th May Sat, 15th June Sat, 20th July Sun, 25th August Sun, 29th September Sun, 27th October Sun, 3rd November Sun, 1st December COMPETITION Streamer Cutting Right Hand Seat Circuit Flour Bombing Balloon Bursting Night Flying Night Flying Night Flying Peter Lloyd Practice (Spot Landing) Peter Lloyd Competition (Spot Landing) Fun Flight Event Forced Landings Balloon Bursting & Xmas BBQ

Balloon Bursting Comp and Xmas BBQ Just a reminder that our next Comp/Fun Day will be combined with our Christmas BBQ on Sunday, the 2 nd December 2018.

For the members that are not planning on competing stop by the club at 12 noon to celebrate and look back on the year of 2018.

3 Balloon Bursting Comp and Xmas BBQ Just a reminder that our next Comp/Fun Day will be combined with our Christmas BBQ on Sunday, the 2 nd December Say farewell to 2018 with a bang by trying your luck with Balloon Bursting. The event will commence at 12 noon with a BBQ lunch, with competition expecting to start at approximately 1pm. For the members that are not planning on competing stop by the club at 12 noon to celebrate and look back on the year of If you are planning to compete, could you please register with Squawk (preferred method) or admin@ddac.com.au with full details as soon as possible. This will allow us to prepare ahead of the day, and make arrangements to ensure we have sufficient balloons and helium gas on hand. Comp prices are as follows: 0.3 flight time plus landing fee (instructor charge is free) Tommy $72.78 Warrior $87.40 C172 $92.98 * Balloon and helium additional cost is $20 The help of volunteers will make this day a success and will be greatly appreciated. This has been a very popular event in the past so come join us for another fun filled afternoon and give it a go! Streamer Cutting Comp 27th January 2019 The first comp of 2019 will be streamer cutting, on Sunday 27th of January. For those not familiar with this fun event, you will head out to the training area and climb to at least 2500 above ground level. The goal is to perform steep descending turns whilst chasing an unfurled toilet roll aiming to cut it four times in 100 seconds. Three cuts can be from turns in the same direction whilst one cut has to be from the opposite direction. On return to Toowoomba a spot landing glide approach will be performed. Remember, points are scored for not only where you touchdown, but also the landing technique used. Thus, you are better off landing slightly past the 50 point box, but with a well executed landing than on the touchdown point with a thud. Please register your interest in attending with the club. Be sure to keep an eye out for information on up coming club events. We look forward to seeing you all in the new year!

4 Slipstream First Solo 2018 Aidan Formosa Steven Pocock Roger Junior Oldfield Justice Whiley William Walton Heath Evans Ben Carmichael Peter Knudsen Peter Knudsen Not pictured: Rob Eberhard + Ryan Harmer

5 Slipstream RPL 2018 Emily Taylor Steven Pocock Dan Cherry PPL 2018 Tom Speed Bradley Redding Julie Baartz Dan Atkinson

GST FREE EXEMPTION ON CPL TRAINING If you have your PPL and are contemplating gaining a Commercial Pilot s Licence, the ATO approved DDAC to offer GST FREE flight training for CPL training only.

Matt Bowtell Expression of Interest - Movie Night At the Strand Cinema Spitfire is a cinematic, epic, sweeping tale of determination, vision and courage.

Credited with changing the course of world history, this is the Spitfire s story told personally in the words of the last surviving combat veterans. (www.spitfiredocumentary.

6 GST FREE EXEMPTION ON CPL TRAINING If you have your PPL and are contemplating gaining a Commercial Pilot s Licence, the ATO approved DDAC to offer GST FREE flight training for CPL training only. CPL 2018 Bec Benjamin The DDAC is planning on hosting a movie night at the Strand Cinema, with canapes on offer before hand and popcorn for the screening of Spitfire. Matt Bowtell Expression of Interest - Movie Night At the Strand Cinema Spitfire is a cinematic, epic, sweeping tale of determination, vision and courage. It is the story of an aeroplane that was forged in competition, shaped as the war clouds gathered and refined in the white heat of combat going on to become the most famous fighter aircraft ever made. Credited with changing the course of world history, this is the Spitfire s story told personally in the words of the last surviving combat veterans. ( For this event to happen we need minimum 50 people, please register your interest at the club. Bring your family, partner or friends along to see this true story documentary. The cost is yet to be confirmed, but is estimated to be around $25-$30 per person. This price is based on ticket + nibblies prior to movie; or popcorn and choc top during movie. (One or the other). The suggested date is a Sunday 5:30pm either, 13 th or 20 th January Please admin or express interest at the front desk with a preferred date asap. Fun Flight Event 2018 The weather gods were smiling the day of Fun Flight 2018, with blue skies and only a gentle breeze making for perfect flying conditions. The event proved to be a fun filled day for both the kids and their parents alike. We would like to thanks all our members and volunteers for their hard work and sharing their passion for aviation. Not only did we have aeroplanes and a helicopter performing the flights, there was also a jumping castle, petting zoo, face painting and a space ship! For those wanting to volunteer but could not attend the event this year, you will be happy to know that the Fun Flight event is scheduled to run on Sunday the 27th of October in Put this down in your calendars so you can be apart of this extraordinary show of airmanship, community and just shear fun. (See Fun Flight 2018 happy snaps on next page)

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After a year of planning and pre-validation of our licences in order to be issued with South African licences, last May the five amigos finally embarked on the adventure of a lifetime.

8 Jane s Brilliant African Aero Safari 2018 So, if you haven t flown any P.I.C. hours in 21 years and your friends suggest you dust off your 48yo PPL so you can hire a C182 and fly yourself all around southern Africa, what do you say? Painfully for Andrew Nacsa, I said yes. After a year of planning and pre-validation of our licences in order to be issued with South African licences, last May the five amigos finally embarked on the adventure of a lifetime. In Cape Town we passed our check flights in possibly the oldest C172 still in existence the flight was an hour s memorable scenic jaunt around Table Mountain, the city and harbour, down to the Cape of Good Hope and back over the Stellenbosch vineyards. A few days later, we departed Johannesburg in three C182s with a Dutch couple tagging along in a C172. The aero safari lasted 19 days, 13 of which were flying days. Our typical day began pre-dawn with a game drive if we were visiting a game reserve, flying for up to four or five hours, re-fuelling at our destination, relaxing before a dusk game drive which finished with sundowners, then an evening of good food and camaraderie with new and old friends. We learned nifty tricks, such as stacking thorn bushes over the aircraft tyres to discourage hyenas chewing them, taking off from short airstrips at high elevations on lean fuel mixtures, and learning to stay clear of the inevitable dense fog on the Atlantic coast of Namibia. Fortunately we had no delayed departures due to lions camping under aircraft wings after enjoying licking the smashed insects on the leading edges. We looked forward to the low level downwind beat ups on strips to scare off massed impala, doing quick tear-drop turns onto a late final before they could re-assemble. One very competent pilot executed a textbook short field obstacle clearance take-off, the obstacle(s) being a loitering family of rhinos. He was thankful they weren t giraffe! We avoided the bush pilots in the Okavango who apparently don t have radios and get nosebleeds above 200 AGL. We ballooned at dawn in the Namibian desert, hooned on quad bikes through the Skeleton Coast sand dunes, were poled silently through the waterways of the Okavango in mocoros, followed the Okavango upstream and along the Caprivi Strip with frequent low level incursions into Angolan airspace, met elephant, hippo, rhino, lion, giraffe, buffalo, zebra, leopard, cheetah, hyena, jackals, flamingo, crocs, baboons, and all the African antelope from the tiny dik-diks to the mighty kudu. And abundant, wonderful birdlife. Would I do it again? In a heartbeat. Our licences are valid til Jan Just a question of funds. - Jane Brilliant.

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au Jess Earns Extra Stripe Everyone at the Darling Downs Aero Club are very excited to wish our newest grade 2 instructor, Jess

9 Christmas Slipstream 2018 Still searching for a Christmas present for your special someone? DDAC has a second hand David Clarke H10-80 headset for sale for only $ We also have a brand new David Clarke H and headset bags to keep them pristine. Visit us at Like us on Write a review on Google for Darling Downs Aero Club Call out for volunteers: If any of our members wish to volunteer their time and expertise to help with admin/ maintenance of club facilities, we would love to hear from you. If interested, please contact us at: manager@ddac.com.au Jess Earns Extra Stripe Everyone at the Darling Downs Aero Club are very excited to wish our newest grade 2 instructor, Jess Greer, a massive congratulations on gaining her extra stripe. All of her hard work and dedication to her profession has paid off. We would like to thank our readers for enjoying slipstream this past year. From January 2019, slipstream will no longer be ed to members but Page 9 will be published on the DDAC website.

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