Happy birthday Jim!

 Great to see Rod (above) and (below with Eddie and Jake) back in Toc for some very good gliding over the weekend.

 Tracey (above) had a great first time gliding experience with Eddie in UIZ.

 Jamie, above with lots of family support & below with Ed had a terrific flight in the Twin Astir.

Happy birthday to Jim (above) who enjoyed a surprise birthday flight from all his family.

Farewell Mike & Kari - Hello Max

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 Mike, Eddie and Jake (above).

 We all enjoyed a lovely farewell dinner for Mike at the Tocumwal Golf Club.

 

Sadly the time to say goodbye to Mike came round way too quickly. Only seemed like yesterday that he arrived for his Australian summer holiday at SportAviation. Very much looking forward to seeing you again next season Mike.

A warm welcome to Max (below) who came with us to Cobram to farewell Mike when he caught the bus to Melbourne.

 Great to see Bracey (below) back flying the EuroFox.

 Farewell also to Santa's little helper (above) with Eddie, Max, Johannes, Jutta, Bracey, Marg and Kelly. Yes, it was Eskimo pies all round on Kari's last evening here. Kari has enjoyed some terrific flights in JJ over the past five weeks or so. We can't wait to see you again next season Kari!

Nice undercarriage!!

 Tim, Kari and Chris (above) enjoying a joke. Very nice undercarriage!! (below).

 The lovely Laurel (above) doing some pre flight checks.

 Mike, John, Ed, Tim, Paula and the gorgeous Inka (above) enjoying a coffee.

Mike and Ed (above) checking the LS4.

Congratulations Masashi!!

 Happy Birthday to Mike (above) looking extremely youthful for 85!!.

 Masashi (above) and below with Eddie about to launch in IIE.

 Congratulations to Masashi (above) who achieved his Silver "C" in LS4 IIE. -Fantastic effort!!

 Taichi (above) did some flying with Eddie in the EuroFox nosewheel.

Farewell to our Japanese friends; Masashi, Nobuyuki and Taichi. We look forward to seeing you all again.

49 years of wedded bliss!!

 Congratulations to Bjorn & Lis (above & below) who celebrated their 49th wedding anniversary while staying at SportAviation. Bjorn and Lis have now headed for Melbourne to continue their holiday. We can hardly wait to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary!!

 Welcome to Masashi, Nobuyuki and Taichi from Japan (above) with Mike.

 Masashi (above) prepares to launch in the Twin Astir.

 Nobuyuki (above) having instruction with Mike in UIZ.

 Taichi (above) has been flying LS4 HDK.

 Nobuyuki, Jake and Taichi (above) getting ready for a photo shoot and team Japan (below).

Coffee anyone?

 John and Terry (above) took to the skies in the Janus C Turbo.

 Bjorn (above) getting ready to launch in KYO.

 Rolf (above) enjoyed a taste of gliding with Eddie in the Twin Astir.

Coffe anyone? Mike (above) relishing the ambience of the 'Pavillion' and the iced coffee was excellent too!

 Masaaki (above) and Shinjiro (below) have had some good soaring in the Pik 20D and LS4 IIE respectively.

 Maki (above) has enjoyed flying in IIE achieving his Gold C height along the way-Well done!!

Farewell to Maki, Marko, Masaaki and Shinjiro (above) with Jake, Eddie and Mike. We hope to see you all again next season.

Cool change

 Farewell to Ludger (above) with wife Min and Eddie. Ludger has enjoyed flying in HDK, UIR and also with Terry in the Janus C-Turbo. 

 Welcome to Masaaki, Marko, Maki and Shinjiro (above) who have travelled from Japan for a week of gliding.

 Shinjiro (above) and Maki (below) flew with Eddie in the EuroFox tail dragger for their site checks.

 Bjorn (above) with Mike helping to put the LS4 to bed.

 Kari (above) doing a bit of car maintenance in between flights.

Maximum temperature yesterday was 34.6 degrees so a welcome cool change compared to the above 40 degree days we've been experiencing.

Heat wave continues!

 A very warm welcome to Bjorn (above) who arrived with his lovely wife Lis a few days ago.

 Mark (above) enjoyed a weeks flying in the hot weather.

 Jake (above) has been kept busy towing.

 Farewell to Stephan (above and below). Stephan has had some terrific flights in LS4 KYO during the past fortnight. He has consistently flown over 500kms sometimes in difficult conditions.

 Farewell also to Joachim (above) who achieved some very good flights in LS4 IIE during his time with us.

 Ludger (above) is making the most of his stay in Tocumwal gliding every day.

 Great to see Mark (above) in the PW-5 over the weekend.

We have had nearly a week of high temperatures (38 - 43 degrees) so hope the change expected tomorrow will cool things down a bit!!