My Flying

Morning starts off cloudless and about 20°C. Arrive at 9:30 am, things are quiet gliding-wise, but lots of chatting. Sky starts to look better and at 11:00 am I'm off in the Falke with instructor F(4). He takes off (16R) and I spend about 45 minutes in the air, mostly with the engine on. At one point we are over 3000ft AGL with clear visibility all the way to the coast.

Only problem is with the comms. The instructor's headset is not working well and communication not good, this spoilt things somewhat. I wanted to practice thermalling and do a few touch and goes. He was happy to let me cruise around practicing straight and level and coordinated turns.

Eventually got around to do two circuits with touch and goes. First one needed to be aborted, way too high. Second one was rather bumpy as I closed the airbrakes just as we were flaring and the plane climbed off the ground. The full stop went much better. Half the problem with this is not quite knowing what you are doing and what the instructor is doing. Anways, and hour in the air, with lots of good flying, a bit hard on the pocket at about 242,50ZAR which blows my budget for the month.