The Wilga Story

What was supposed to be a Sunday trip to fix the trim cable in Wilga ended up as a whole day job. A completed job though. We found her in bits and pieces in the morning and managed to have her ready to fly that evening. The trim cable saga is not worth mentioning - we'll be much smarter next time ;-)

Australia's got pretty strict speed limits for all roads

on the way to Wilga

let's put her back together ... ok, but where do we start?

way to go

We ended up with an evening roll out and only a small plastic bag full of "spare" parts that we are not quite sure where they belong to. The plane doesn't looks like she's missing anything.

VH-PZZ hasn't been flown for the last 6 years and needs at least a quick rinse to regain the airfoil on the wings and make sure she's got her best L/D of 5.5 ... Surprised? Well, that's what it is. She's a flying drag and falls of the sky like a brick so you can land anywhere putting her even into a smallest field.

cleaning profis

We finished working pretty late and stopped in Penola Pub for dinner before hitting the road back to Horsham. 

Penola is located in the middle of the Coonawarra wine region in South Australia. The road leading to town has kilometers on wineries on each side providing the best grape juice in the country. It makes it really hard to drive through and not to stop for tasting or at least picking up a box of juice for later consumption. It was already late when we were driving back so we only stopped for few Santas. Every winery has it's own original Santa .