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…

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)…

I started my recently acquired Air Nav Pro on a regular flight between Nice and Luxembourg, this time being a passenger, whilst flying over Courchevel. Here’s a screenshot and a picture taken out of the window….although I couldn’t recognize the altiport of Courchevel on it…I should have been above it I have some good memories…

Willy Verghote of my Belgian flying club Limburgse Vleugels took the great initiative to setup and organize a fly out to Verdun in France. This city has been often the battlefield between European powers. The last big battle took place some 100 years ago and more than 150.000 people died over there. It marked also…

With the arrival of tablets, technology of professional aviation seems to conquer the market of General aviation and this without all the related costs. I recently discovered Rocketroute, a flight planning system. I played a bit around with the trial version and was amazed by this new planning service. I’m going to use this device…

This week, we got the terrible news that my friend and gliding nstructor, Michel Trial of Fayence, passed away. Here’s the text I posted on this blog some two years ago about Michel ” I’m close with Michel Trial. He just became 65 years and he brings 25.000 hours of gliding experience. What I like…

I compared rental rates for some planes between my Belgian ( Limburgse Vleugels at EBZW Zwartberg-Genk ) and my Luxembourg club (Aerosport at ELLX). The outcome is quite interesting: At both airfields, one can find AVGAS 100LL, which is very convenient. In Genk, billing is based upon clock time and in Luxembourg, billing is based…

This weekend, I headed to my Belgian flying club, “Limburgse Vleugels” located at the Zwartberg/Genk EBZW airfield. The last time I flew the C172SP with Garmin 1000 glass cockpit dates from 2008. That’s five years ago since I last flew it, reason enough to take some flight lessons on this machine. I booked three flights…