My Flying

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 »

Today was a good day for my solo cross country in the motor glider, and after some planning I set off on a short trip to a nearby airfield on the coast. The weather report was good, but the wind at about 6000 ft was predicted to be 30 to 40 knots. No… more »

Each Sunday at 9 am the duty crew arrives timeously at our small gliding club; their mission: to get the gliders out of the hangar, prepare the winch and to get things ready for the day. The photo to the right is of them working their little hearts out,… more »

I have put some serious flying hours this week, but when is enough ever enough. Well the answer is quite simply, enough us never enough.:p The weather this Saturday did not look very promising and the clouds were more stratus than cumulus. Never-the-l… more »