My Flying

I spent most of today, Saturday, working in the hangar at the airfield busy fixing and modifying the tail-dolly for the Single Astir. This is the fourth Saturday I have spent on this job and I'm almost done now. Firstly, I stripped down the old and br… more »

The started off looking promising, but this soon turned to disappointment and frustration when we realised that the winch was kaput. No amount of tinkering by any of the members managed to get it running. I took the Falke for a spin, first one circuit… more »

The turn out at the airfield today was rather small, this plus the fact that we had no winch driver meant that we could only fly the Falke. Just to get some practice in, I performed two short circuits on runway 34. The wind was a light Northerly but o… more »

Now here’s what I really enjoyed about today. I arrived at the airfield and for once there were enough people to get the operations going without my assistance. After I had given them some direction, they managed to get everything ready and had… more »