My Flying

An interesting, but also a very frustrating day. Due to various issues (that I'd rather not discuss here) gliding only started at 1:00 pm. The day started off cloudy with a light drizzle in the early hours of the morning. I walked the wing of the Twin to 26L then had to do a u-turn and walk it to 16L, a distance of about 2,2 km (more issues), for the south-easterly.

After two pax flights, I flew twice with instructor F(4) and both takeoffs and landings went well, though unfortunately I could not determine exactly how much he was involved in the proceedings. The first flight was a good 22 minutes long and we transversed the ridge several times climbing slowly to about 900 feet AGL. We could have stayed up longer but I was more interested in practicing landings. The second flight was an intentionally short 6 minutes. What I did practice during the first flight was nice smooth slow flying with good co-ordinated turns and good speed control.

During the day there was also a very nice formation fly over by five planes from a local air school then later that afternoon an amazing low level pass over 26L, heading west, of a privately owned L29 jet. And again, just as low, doing about 600 km/h (or so he radioed to the traffic in the area - show off!)

A long day made even longer by the fact that this is the middle of winter and the sun sets at about 5:30 pm. Total for both flight was 102,40ZAR.