My Flying

More work on the Single's tow out gear and some very nice looking clouds that invited me to take the Falke for a quick spin.

I found a few decent thermals but I really had a hard time thermalling and using the lift. I find the Falke difficult to thermal for a number of reasons: (a) You sit on the left and it feels weird thermalling like this, (b) the Falke thermals with a very nose down attitude which also feels weird and (c) you have very little sounds to help you as even the engine at idle makes a noise and you are wearing headphones.

This resulted in (a) me having a hard time controlling the speed as the nose feels all over the place, (b) not turning as tightly as necessary as I'm was not confident with my speed control and (c) spending way too much time with my head in the cockpit with one eye on the ASI and the other on the vario and ball.

I did manage to gain some height, but lost it pretty quickly and eventually elected to land on 16 for a 29 minute flight. The Falke is most definitely not the Single and is a distant second as a glider. Cost = 138.80ZAR.