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

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…