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Unplanned Weench Duty

28/10/2007

Permalink 18:00:00, by admin, 114 words   English (ZA)
Categories: take offs & landings, thermaling & soaring, blanik L13

Busy day at the airfield. Rather lekker after the small groups of members showing up in the weeks/months before. The day included a pax flight (a dude from Scotland) and we even acquired a new member.

Busy day at the airfield

Unfortunately for me I was rather miffed, to put it mildly. I spent most of the day sitting and waiting at the winch. The duty winch driver was just nowhere to be seen.

I did manage to get a nice 24 minute soar along the ridge. Scrapping along at 700 feet AGL most the time, but it was a huge thrill and I learnt a lot. The instructor was very impressed with my landing and all that at 83,00ZAR.