Categories: solo, aircraft, ASW 20, blanik L13, motor falke, single astir, twin astir, practical, achievments, advanced, backseat training, circuits & landings, cross-country, stalls, spins & steep turns, thermaling & soaring

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15/03/2009

Rather an amazing day for me. Why? - Because today, for the first time, I flew three different aircraft on the same day. This may not sound like much, but I consider it to be rather an impressive achievement and a first for me. Not only this, the lift wa… more »

08/03/2009

Permalink 22:36:00, by admin, 500 words   English (ZA)
Categories: solo, twin astir, circuits & landings
The soaring weather started off looking awesome and by the time I arrived (9 am) the duty crew (of which I was one) had already extracted the aircraft from the hangar and the winch was ready to go. So things looked promising. We started flying early a… more »

08/02/2009

Permalink 18:40:00, by admin, 419 words   English (ZA)
Categories: solo, motor falke, thermaling & soaring
Let's face it - globally, well at least in my small neck of the woods; the weather is all wrong and a bit of a mess. Summer seems to think that it's winter, Autumn thinks that it's Summer and Spring, well poor Spring has just been forgotten altogether. T… more »

01/02/2009

Permalink 20:19:44, by admin, 579 words   English (ZA)
Categories: motor falke, thermaling & soaring
The day did not start off too promising. When I arrived at the airfield the winch was out of action (again) and the Twin, although the damaged from the previous week had been fixed, was still in pieces and needed to be inspected for it's airworthiness ce… more »

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