Hunter Valley Display

Last week I went to the Hunter Valley, north of Sydney, to fly a display at the Kirkton Park Sebel. The event was an Allianz corporate function. It's always great to fly a display away from an airfield. This location had beautiful scenery with rolling hills and huge gum trees which made it a lot of fun.

The display was well received. On the flight home I ran into a large line of thunderstorms and decided the best option was to over night back in the Hunter - so I too ended up spending the night at the Sebel. It's a lovely place with plenty of old charm.

The weather had cleared by late morning the next day and the flight back to Sydney was pleasant!

Proud Partners with Quail TV!

I'm very pleased to announce our partnership with Quail Television. Quail TV is an exciting production company based in Sydney Australia. You've probably watched many of their productions without realising who they are ...

The "Real Top Guns" and the "Find my Family" series are a couple of examples.

Check our web page for more information!

www.BlairAerosport.com.au/index_files/QTV.htm

State (NSW) Aerobatic Championships

We are back from the NSW Aerobatic Championships. It was a fantastic event, the biggest comp for decades apparently. I competed in Advanced which had an excellent turn out of competitors. With not much Aresti flying lately I wasn't particularly confident prior to the weekend but things came together in the days running up to the comp.

(Waiting for the Starter to give me the go ahead ... )

I finished first in all three scored events, ie the Free, the First Unknown and the Second Unknown for an overall win.

A very pleasing result.

My wife had to eat her words, she thought I wouldn't be competitive ...

Results are at:
www.gspotaerobatics.com/results/2009/multi_Advanced.htm

Good mate, Richard Wiltshire cleaned up in the Unlimited category. We came home in formation together, both of us in good spirits! Not long after takeoff, Rich joked we should of called ourselves "Victory Formation", now that would have been rubbing it in to the other guys!

The officials did a great job, things ran very smoothly and we got through a huge amount of flying, over 120 flights I believe ...

Congratulations and thanks to all involved.

(Trying to critique ... )