My Flying

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 »

As it turned out, a damn good day at the airfield. There was more than the usual turn out of members, everyone helped out and the flying was good. I spent half the day launching gliders with the winch and also managed to get my turn to fly. I had t… 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 »

Another weekday, another public holiday, another trip to the airfield. The weather was not looking to be the greatest and the cu’s were low and looked rather lifeless. As usual the chaps from the training schools were keeping the circuit busy and I de… more »