My Flying

I spent a large part of Saturday morning working hard in the hangar moving 5 aeroplanes and two trailers to eventually to be able too extract the trailer for the Single. My plan was to take the trailer home and to effect some repair work in preparation for my trip to Bloemfontein at the end of the year.

It was back breaking work, but eventually it got done. While I was at the airfield I decided to go for a quick spin in the Motor Falke. The wind was probably about 15 to 20 kph blowing cross for both the main runways. I elected 26 and during my takeoff roll soon realised that the wind was rather strong and more cross that I had expected. Never-the-less everything went off nice and smoothly and once the main wheel was off the ground a large amount of crabbing was required to keep me tracking straight down the runway.

I flew around for 10 minutes or so and then landed eventfully on runway 34. A nice short flip with some good lessons learned at 87,60ZAR.