My Flying

Now here’s what I really enjoyed about today. I arrived at the airfield and for once there were enough people to get the operations going without my assistance. After I had given them some direction, they managed to get everything ready and had… more »

A very pleasant day at the airfield. I took two short flights in the Single Astir as the air was pretty dead. During the first flight I found a bit of lift downwind of the airfield and managed to scrimp and scrape to about 2500 feet. The westerly wind… more »

The weather was almost identical to the previous day. A slight NW on the ground, high clouds and lots of haze. Again a strong wind was predicted at 6000 ft. As I had flown far the previous day, the turn out at the club was small and the soaring weathe… more »

Today was a good day for my solo cross country in the motor glider, and after some planning I set off on a short trip to a nearby airfield on the coast. The weather report was good, but the wind at about 6000 ft was predicted to be 30 to 40 knots. No… more »

Today was not an official flying day due to Saturday’s open day and everyone being rather exhausted from all the work. more »

Today was a big day for our club. It was our first open day in many many years. The gliders were cleaned, food prepared and equipment checked, all for the visitors that we expected. The club members really pulled together and put in a huge effort to get… more »

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 o… more »