My Flying

As today was part of the Easter Weekend long weekend no official flying was planned. I never-the-less took a drive to the airfield to again repair the loose tail-skid of the Single's, this time by applying a different and apparently better glue.

When I was done I decided to take the Falke for a quick spin as the weather forecast had predicted some light thermals from about 1pm. The wind was blowing a good 20 kph SW straight down runway 26 and the aircraft seemed to lift off almost immediately after applying full power.

A flew around with engine on and when I got to about 2500 feet I found a few pieces of broken lift that I used (still with the engine on at about 30% power). Once under cloud base the lift was pretty strong, but very broken and no really useable.

By now the wind had west me quite far NW and under power I headed back then glided down for a nice landing. So not much in the way of soaring, but never-the-less some good hour building and experience at 265.20ZAR.