My Flying

The winch in still out of order and even though we had a tug driver today, the keys to the tug were out of town.

The weather in the morning looked promising and the reports back from the Falke pilots was good. Unfortunately when my turn arrived, so did a cold Westerly and the lift became broken and weak.

Never-the-less I scrapped and chugged along, sometimes with power, but mostly just above idle making use of the lift that I could find. I ventured far from the airfield (well far for me) and was pleasantly surprised in that I could judge the 12 km final glide back to the airfield and still have enough height (though just) to make my final turns.

Some nice well planned touch and goes and after 60 minutes I was home. Although the weather was a bit disappointing I learnt quite a bit and built up my confidence levels. (Cost = 288,00ZAR)