Categories: student, aircraft, blanik L13, dimona, motor falke, twin astir, practical, advanced training, basic manoeuvres, cross-country, introduction, stalls & steep turns, take offs & landings, thermaling & soaring

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01/01/2007

Permalink 17:00:00, by admin, 117 words   English (ZA)
Categories: student, no fly day
A Happy New Year to ye' all, my fans, friends and family! Overall the camp was a success and thank you to the organisers. It would have been much better if the weather had played along. The average thermals for our time there were no more than 2.5m/s.… more »

31/12/2006

Permalink 18:30:00, by admin, 382 words   English (ZA)
Categories: student, twin astir, take offs & landings, thermaling & soaring, cross-country
The light varying SW wind was changing between cross from the left and a 30° tail wind. I hopped aboard for my first aerotow as PIC; that on a downhill dust strip with a slight tail wind. I was doing well at the controls keeping the plane more or less st… more »

30/12/2006

Permalink 20:00:00, by admin, 339 words   English (ZA)
Categories: student, motor falke, take offs & landings, thermaling & soaring
We arrived yesterday in Nieu Bethesda after a four hour drive; an hour of which was on reasonably good gravel roads. Our accommodation is in a small, but nice, rondawel situated on a local sheep farm that is about 15 minutes drive from the farm's airfiel… more »

24/12/2006

Permalink 08:16:00, by admin, 18 words   English (ZA)
Categories: student, no fly day
Almost Christmas and just 6 days to go before our departure for the flying camp in the Karoo. :D more »

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