Horsham Aero Club held a Fly in on Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th October 2008. I attended the Club on Saturday morning and was surprised at the number of aircraft landing at Ballarat to refuel their aircraft and themselves at our Club, whilst on their way to Horsham. I know of three aircraft from our Club that went to Horsham on Saturday, TIM with Dave Addison and Keith Jeffs, Ted Hardcastle in his C150 and Colin Davies in JFY.
Two Club aircraft flew to Horsham with two others IFG Gruman tiger and USV an Archer Two on Sunday 19th October. DHS participants were Wayne Mitchell, Keith Pitman and George Henderson-Drife. BJV Peter Fletcher and friend. USV Mike McCaw and Matt Chester and IFG with Justin Brown and his son.
At Horsham we found it interesting with a DC3 doing joy flights over the Grampians. Watching that graceful old bird take off and land with a fair crosswind was interesting to say the least. There were vintage/classic cars and motorbikes, even Len Kennedy would be home on the later (there was even a three wheeler Harley Davidson there, Len). The Rotary/Lions BBQ went down well; it was doing a roaring trade. The Horsham Aero Club had an open house where free tea or coffee was offered and a rest talking to other aviators. A Jabiru was used as a tug to launch a glider, which was interesting to watch.
I thoroughly enjoyed the day but the flight up and back was very enjoyable with our pax. We left Ballarat about 10.30am with broken cloud at 4,000ft and light overcast at 12,000ft. We went up through a hole to above the broken cloud, which was great with cloud above and below and Mt. William sticking its head out of the cloud. We averaged about 94
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Horsham Fly-in on 18th and 19th October 2008
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