My Flying

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 »

August proved to be an exciting month in that I eventually got my own aeroplane (or at least a sizable share in one), but also very frustrating as both July and August were really crappy gliding months as the weather did not play ball. Oddly enough last… more »

The weather was not ideal today as the wind was blowing a fair amount and the sky looked rather dead from a thermalling point of view, though flying was possible unfortunately all the crew did not arrive for duty and so flying was cancelled for the day.… more »