Month: May 2014
The advantage of gliding/soaring as a sport is for me that it gives me time to think things over when I’m up in the mountains. I realized today that it is exactly 35 years ago that I got my wings as a Belgian Flight Cadet at the airfield of Oostmalle in Belgium. Here’s a picture…
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On my third gliding day of the season, I teamed upon again with Jean Magne for a flight through the Southern Alps. Although the flight as such was nice (we followed a more western path), I had serious pain in my back (kidneys) all the flight long. Not very pleasant to say the least..especially if…
Read More >>What should have become a local flight today (my first solo gliding flight since a year) turned out to become a very special flying adventure. I booked an (old) K-6 glider for the day here in Fayence, France. At the briefing, I learned that weather outlook for the day was excellent. I put my glider…
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We don’t like to fail and that’s why Jean Magne and me immediately undertook a second attempt to get high in the mountains. This time it worked out well and we performed a exceptional flight achieving an altitude of more than 3600 metres MSL
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Something every glider pilot needs to do at the beginning of the season is the annual chack flight. I paid my annual fees to my flying club in Fayence (France) and asked Fayence veteran Jean Magne (83 years old but a very fit man and since more than 50 years a flying instructor) to go…
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Springtime ! Today we had nearly clear skies, a little bit of wind coming from northern directions and a reservation book in the “Black Mountain” club (Limburgse Vleugels) which was not to well filled. Reason enough to go for a spring flight. I contacted my Belgian friend Ludo and we booked the OO-CIR (Cessna 172)…
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