Category: thermaling & soaring

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05/11/2006

Permalink 19:59:25, by admin, 237 words   English (ZA)
Categories: student, twin astir, take offs & landings, thermaling & soaring
The day started off wet, there was a lecture on thermalling and then actual thermalling. Correct, you heard me right. Thermalling at FAUH! The theory all sounds good, that's of course until you try and put that mass of information to practice, then it's… more »

29/10/2006

Permalink 16:41:00, by admin, 180 words   English (ZA)
Categories: student, twin astir, take offs & landings, thermaling & soaring
After last weeks flying, today was a bit of a let down. The first flight went well because at last I had a chance to practice some thermaling. It was very broken, but with lots of hard work we kept the plane up for 26 minutes, it could have been longer,… more »

22/10/2006

Permalink 17:47:10, by admin, 331 words   English (ZA)
Categories: student, twin astir, take offs & landings, thermaling & soaring
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 »

15/10/2006

Permalink 19:26:50, by admin, 131 words   English (ZA)
Categories: student, take offs & landings, thermaling & soaring
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 »

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