My Flying

A nice thing about having your own blog is that you can say pretty much what you want about who you want. Of course the other side is that some people do actually read this blog, so saying too much might not be wise. In South Africa we have a nice wor… more »

I arrived at the airfield nice and early for a quick celebratory breakfast. After that there was an hour long lecture (the first of three) on cross country flying, the preparations and regulations. Handy stuff, though I'm not sure that I'm going to be us… more »

A light blowing South-Easter meant that we could soar our ridge for the middle part of the day. My half an hour flight soaring to a maximum of 800 feet (above runway elevation) over the ridge made up for the frustration of arriving first at the field at… more »

Happy factor = 9/10. As there was a fresh westerly wind blowing we winch launched from runway 26L with instructor F(2). The first launch was a little rusty, but other than that all the flights went very well. During the day I practiced shallow and med… more »