In order to smoothly enter into the weekend, I booked a C172 in our Luxembourg club (www.aerosport.lu) for friday evening 5pm. I asked Guido, a fellow pilot if he wanted to join me for an evening flight and was glad he accepted. The weather has been only so and so the whole week, but this…

Every morning at 09.30 there’s a weather briefing at the flying club of Fayence in France. This briefing is always well attended, also by non flying pilots. It is a bit like a mass. Hereunder are some snapshots of the detailed charts shown. It is based upon several websites. One of them is tailor made…

After three days enjoying France it wass time to fly home again to Luxembourg. My fellow pilot Maurice would act as pilot for this leg. Heavy winds were announced in Luxembourg as of noon (gusts to 45 Kts), reason to leave very early in the morning. So by 6.30am we took off in Fayence and…

I tend to be often in Fayence, but always fly with the Luxair to Nice. This was the first time I made it in a Cessna. The region is superb, it is near to the coast and it is a soaring center as well. I’m a member of the soaring club since many years. Although,…

The days prior to the Jersey fly out learned us that bad weather was on it’s way to the region. We planned to take off on Thursday afternoon in Luxembourg. By the moment we arrived at our clubhouse in Luxembourg, we learned that two other planes had taken off earlier in the morning. Anyway, whilst…

In a couple of weeks, I’m flying with my pilot-pal Maurice to Jersey and the channel islands. We’ll start on Thursday August 7 and fly from Luxembourg to Quiberon airport, which will take a couple of hours in our C172 (click here for the details) From Quiberon, we’ll fly on to the nearby Ile d’Quessant.…

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…

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…

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