Today, I have been making a local flight in a KA6 sailplane. The Ka6 (German make) one-seater was one of the most successful wooden glider designs of the 1950’s and 1960’s. It is well suited to make cross country overland flights. There was a lot of wind today coming from the northwest. That’s why we…

The first two days of my mountain flying program are behind me. It has been very intense to say the least. On Monday, we have been flying 4.5 hours (276 kms) and today we have been soaring for 5.5 hours (and performing 433 kms). Today was truly impressive in every way. We were able to…

Eastern 2015. The soaring season starts again. This year, I’ve planned to improve my mountain flying skills. That’s why I’ve traveled to Southern France to the Fayence-Tourrettes airfield. The chief instructor, Regis Kuntz, setup a training program for this week allowing me to strengthen my mountain flying skills and achieve a 200 km overland flight…

I’m preparing the season opener for Aerosport in Luxembourg, which is held on the weekend of April 24-25, 2015. The plan is to visit three airfields located on dutch (near) island, being Midden Zeeland, Texel and Lelystad. The planning is well advnced. As I wanted to practice with the G1000 auto pilot, I flew today…

Last weekend, Egide Van Dingenen, showed me his C182 of the Q make located at the EBZW Zwartberg Genk airfield. This plane has been built in 1980 and since the motor has been replaced (not overhauled), he has been making some 900 hours on it. The Cessna 182 Skylane is a great aircraft. It has…

The flying season of 2015 is arriving rapidly. I hope to be able to partcipate at many fly outs this year on the Cessna 172 S (marketing name SP) equipped with G1000. Last weekend, I drove to my Belgian flying club in Zwartberg-Genk (EBZW) for some additional training with instructor Kristof Goossens as I like…

Today is an active day in our Luxembourg flying club. There are several courses organized for the private pilots of Aerosport. A very well attended course is the non conventional seminar called ” back to basics” about take offs and landings Besides that there are also two other transition courses organized in English. One coincides…

Crazy enough, although being a club member since the early 90’s at Limburgse Vleugels at the eastern Belgium airfield of Genk Zwartberg (ICAO: EBZW), virtually no one of the private pilots seems to fly to the nearby intl airport of Maastricht-Aachen (EHBK) The reasons are threefold: first, eastern Belgium has so many small airfields at…

I’ve been flying with the C172SP (with G1000) in 2008 whilst doing a two week flying tour from Grand Junction Colorado into Mexico, but I haven’t practiced that plane since. The flying club Aerosport in Luxembourg has two such a C172SP and my Belgian club Limburgse Vleugels has got one C175S with G1000. It costs…

Luxembourg is typical and since many years fertile ground for fly-outs. There are three flying clubs at the Luxembourg airport, all together with more than 1.000 private pilots. Also in 2015, an amazing and complete program has been drafted to incite private pilots to fly beyond the local boundaries. Are you interested to attend one…