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 therm… more »

Once again I took the opportunity to do some further work on the Single's tow out gear and as the sky was looking really good I wanted to fly the Falke. The only problem was that the wind was blowing quite and bit and was also gusting some what. I would… more »

The Sunday flying activities of our club take their annual break from about mid December to mid January and thus there no organised flying. Presently I'm also on my three weeks annual leave and took this opportunity to head out to the airfield today to d… more »

So after a good week's flying we hitched the trailer and headed out early for our 9 hour trip back home, so I'm guessing that this would now be a good time to summarise the week' flying as well as to highlight a few lessons learned. => Table of the… more »

When I planned my trip for Bloemfontein I set for myself two objects. The first was to fly my short (50km) cross country so that I could tick that final box on my blue training card for my glider pilot's license and the second was to complete my 5 hours… more »

Today was going to turn out to be another bad gliding day, but not just for me, but for gliding everywhere. After a day like today one can not help but to reflect on gliding, and aviation in general, and to think: "Yes this is great, being able to fly an… more »

Bloemfontein Camp - Day 4 What to say about today? Ponder, ponder, think, think, mmmmhh? Ok, I need to make a small confession: I'm actually writing this blog a few weeks later and I actually can't remember much about what happened on this day. Very w… more »

Bloemfontein Camp - Day 3 This morning the sky did not look so great, in fact, it looked pretty shitty as it was mostly overcast with high mucky looking light grey cloud. At the briefing we were informed that this was due to huge amounts of moist air… more »

Bloemfontein Camp - Day 2 You need to understand that I have never ever been solo (by myself / alone !) further than gliding distance from any airfield (in a glider). For those that fly cross country all they time they might have forgotten just how bi… more »