My Flying

A nice day's flying and running around the airfield was good relief from a super crappy week at work. It was one of those weeks where you seriously wished you could torch the flippin'; place to the ground and toast marshmallows over the ashes of those @rseholes that call themselves management. >

I had three good launches from 16L with instructor F(4), one of the more hands on instructors . The first flight was a nice 31 minute soar along the ridge. For the first half of the flight I wished I had a long stick so I could wack the knuckles of the instructor in the backseat. Sorry, but I feel I'm more than capable of flying along a ridge without having to wrestle for control of the aeroplane.

My three landings went much better, though I touched down well right of the centre line, due mainly to the 45º cross wind pushing me a bit; I had things pretty well under control.

My biggest problem is still not being able to fly often enough and having to fly with a different instructor each week. I find this vastly extends one's learning curve. So I'm starting to get very frustrated. If I had a whole day where I could just practice circuits I would be ready for solo by that evening, no problem.

I also helped out on the winch with four launches. Man, can it get boring down that end of the runway. For the day it was three flights lasting 40 minutes totalling 177,00ZAR.

On our runways you often find these little birds making their nests; right in the middle on the flat stuff. I took a photo this little chick (about 2cm tall) in the grass next to the runway.