Day: September 17, 2010

the longest flight

September 17, 2010

My license is still valid, but it is always a good idea (and it is an obligation as well) to make a check flight with an instructor. In Fayence, you have several professional gliding instructors as well as a chief pilot. One of the instructors, I’m close with is Michel Trial. He just became 65…

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Going to Fayence

September 17, 2010

I started again with gliding this summer. I practice gliding since 1979, the last years I exclusively do so in Fayence. This is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in southeastern France.Fayence is one of a series of “perched villages” overlooking the plain between the southern Alps and the Esterel…

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