My Flying

Again not a promising looking sky; though there were lots of clouds about, they mostly looked like they had blown in from the south west pushed by a 20-30 kph wind from the coast far away. The weather report had also advised that there was some bad w… more »

Day 2 - Friday Day two was a whole lot more relaxed than the rush of the previous day, what with driving to Graaff-Reinet, rigging the planes and so on. The weather looked promising in the morning but pretty soon some nasty inversion took over an… more »

Thursday was a public holiday and a few of us got together, a few weeks back, to arrange a flying weekend (away camp) at the nearby Karoo town of Graaff-Reinet which is about 250km by road. It was a little early in the season so the weather would be a bi… more »

We are planning a gliding camp to Graaff-Reinet for the coming long weekend so most of today was spent getting in some valuable aerotow experience. I only took one tow to circuit height and then landed. Very late in the day some guys found some very… more »

The weather today was looking to be marginal, but flyable, but things took a long time to get going at the airfield and even longer for me to get my turn in the ASW20. I was towed to where the tug pilot expected some wave to be found, but all I found was… more »

Unfortunately, but due to time constraints I just can't keep this blog up to date as often I would like. Too much to do, too little time, and all that. :( Today was a day of a few firsts and even more lessons learned. Aero-towing For starters… more »