Archives for: November 2007

25/11/2007

Today was one of those ummmhhh?!?!? days. A day with lots of question marks with equally as many exclamation marks all preceded with ummmhhhh. So what am I saying here? Ummhh, well it's kind of hard to explain. For some reason I was feeling a bit appr… more »

18/11/2007

Permalink 21:00:00, by admin, 390 words   English (ZA)
Categories: solo, circuits & landings, thermaling & soaring, blanik L13, achievments
A much better turn out at the airfield, but unfortunately no thermal lift. A little later in the day the Southerly picks up and the ridge starts to work, a little. I go up for my check ride. We spend 20 minutes floating around the ridge and then head bac… more »

17/11/2007

During the drive to the airfield I was admiring all those pretty Cumulus clouds and they were looking oh so good, showing lots of promise for the day ahead. Unfortunately the member turn out at the club was low, but still just enough to get us airborne.… more »

11/11/2007

Permalink 20:25:00, by admin, 476 words   English (ZA)
Categories: student, take offs & landings, advanced training, blanik L13
The day started off feeling promising, and it was. I had seven training flights covering just about everything: stalls, incipient spins, steep turns, flapped approaches, no flapped approaches, crabbing approaches, side slips, cable breaks, cross wind… more »

03/11/2007

Permalink 18:06:47, by admin, 304 words   English (ZA)
Categories: take offs & landings, thermaling & soaring, blanik L13
As it turns out I'm developing a small following of people who actually take the time to read my quickly bashed together sentences and oddly placed words. So to all my fans out there I say greetings and salutations and so on and so forth blah blah. I adm… more »