My Flying

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, but there were others also wanting a chance to fly.

The wind was now gusting 35 km/h and the second flight with instructor F(1) was just to practice a circuit. It went ok, but the steep angle of approach caught me a bit unawares, as compared to the previous few weeks calm flying conditions, so I didn't judge the round out very well.

All the takeoffs went very well, but the third landing was a bugger up. Mucked up the round out and put the plane down a hard.

By now the wind gusting 45 km/h. There were some aero-tows and then the Twin's tail wheel gave up the ghost, prematurely ending the day's flying. My job is to find a replacement by next Sunday. Three flights for 35 minutes = 168ZAR.