My Flying

Eish, I'm excited on your behalf. One day you
must start sharing your kowledge of gliding and gliders with us mortals.

Congrats Sigmund,

You guys have an awesome ship there!
Enjoy.

I’m not really sure. I suppose any glider is susceptible if it’s flying fast enough and/or the control inputs are too sudden and/or too extreme.

What type of gliders are prone to PIO? Is there a risk with the Single and Twin Astir?

I know the feeling too :)
I like things to be organised and to get going, which I'm afraid is not the South African way...
When I get to the airfield I want to fly. Gliding is a team sport and we need each other, a lot, problem is that not everyone wants to get their hands dirty.

I know the feeling. I belong to a karting club and feel that most of the time the club would not operate if I did not get stuck in. Drives me nuts! Are you the chairman of your club ?

Definitely not everything, but I find that on most days the members there need some direction. I joined the club to fly.

Sounds like you have to organise everyone and everthing at your club. Your club must be very fortunate to have someone like you as a member - I hope they know that !!

Congratulations, you picked a great day!

To be honest I’m not completely sure. The Falke has a gauge linked to the tachometer (rev counter) that ticks over similar to an odometer on a car, but it doesn’t measure distance but rather how much the engine is used, i.e. the higher the revs the faster this gauge ticks over.

There is a table in the Falke’s log-book where at the end of a flight you can calculate the engine on minutes by subtracting the closing reading on this gauge with the opening one and look up the engine-on value using this table. The engine-on minutes are charged at R5.00 per minute. Then the total flying time less these calculated engine-on minutes is your engine-off minutes charged at R2.20 per minute.

So per my calculations I flew for 75 minutes with an engine on time of 39 minutes, so that’s 39x5 + (75-39)x2.2 = R274.20, I hope!

Hi,

With the flying rate for the falke at R5 and
you flew for 75 min, hows you come to that
total? Did you thermal with the engine off?

Explain some then
Thanx
Danie

Mark, I have decided to delete your comment. It is way too personal and not in the spirit of this blog.

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Hi

I did not know that you went solo last weekend - Well done !

Cheers
Cliff

Hi Sigger,

My brother Dirk should be contacting you soon about gliding at Uitenhage.

Regards,

Wayne

@ DogOne. Thanks dude!!

Hey Sigger,

You know what they say - there are those who have down a wheels up, and those that are still going to.
Luckily, gliders bellies are built strong to withstand out landings. The belly usually always gets minor damage even when landing with the gear down - ask me I know!

I have seen 3 wheels up landings at Orient, 2 involved tired pilots on extremely marginal final glides. The other one, was due to distraction on a normal downwind.

I must say I am impressed with your analysis - thinking and understanding like that, will go along way in making you a very safety consious pilot. Well Done!

Good idea. Like your site. Cheers