My Flying

When I arrived early at the airfield I wasn’t really expecting much to be happening, weather-wise. It was mostly overcast and even drizzled lightly at one stage.

The sky however started opening up a little and we decided to launch the gliders. While on the holding point of 08 and waiting for the trainer to land, two very distinct, thermals let there presence be know, just a few minutes apart.

The winch launch sucked and I got like 900 ft. I immediately turned downwind and I was therefore unable to explore for lift were the trainer managed to get away. All the way on downwind the vario was giving -2 m/s and I thought to myself, dam-it, this is going to be a short flight. Just before I needed to turn base, like magic, the needle started to climb, hard left and 50 minutes later I landed.

A very very lekker flight which I really really enjoyed.

After that, I hopped into the Falke for a short flight with an instructor to complete the final bits of my GFT. We landed about 30 minutes later and all that I still require for my license is a short cross country flight.

All in all a very satisfying weekend, costing about 276 ZAR.