Pete

the longest flight

September 17, 2010

My license is still valid, but it is always a good idea (and it is an obligation as well) to make a check flight with an instructor. In Fayence, you have several professional gliding instructors as well as a chief pilot. One of the instructors, I’m close with is Michel Trial. He just became 65…

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Going to Fayence

September 17, 2010

I started again with gliding this summer. I practice gliding since 1979, the last years I exclusively do so in Fayence. This is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in southeastern France.Fayence is one of a series of “perched villages” overlooking the plain between the southern Alps and the Esterel…

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Gliding / Soaring

July 24, 2010

I started with gliding (soaring) some 30 years ago as a member of the Belgian Air Cadets. I enjoyed gliding in Belgium with the Air Cadets. A fellow mate of my class was Yves Jeanmotte, who has become a professional pilot and a rewarded gliding champion. We flew in the summer camps at Oostmalle and…

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Rates in Luxembourg

July 24, 2010

These are the rates applied in our club in Luxembourg when renting a plane: Cessna 172 : 145€ per hourCessna 172 (with glass cockpit) 177€ per hourCessna 182Q: 239€ per hour Flying the Cirrus SR-20 costs the same as flying a C182 Rates are calculated on the engine time, this means that if you lean…

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Cessna 182 Q

July 23, 2010

tomorrow, I’m going to fly with a Cessna 182 modell Q. It has been a while (couple of years) since I last flew it with on a fly out to the Alps. I had to take some lessons in order to fly it solo again. Tomorrow, it is my first solo flight. I have asked…

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Seppel Fly Out

July 21, 2010

Seems that Aerosport is organising a fly out to Austria in the mid of August. I’m not sure whether it is confirmed or not, I have anyway booked a C182 for four days. Let’s wait and see

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Picking Up Mom in Genk Zwartberg (EBZW)

July 18, 2010

My mom, who’s living in Hasselt, Belgium, uses to come from time to time to visit us in Luxembourg. This time, I suprised her whilst announcing that I would come to pick her up at the nearby airfield of Zwartberg, Genk in Belgium. I booked a Cessna 172 at Aerosporton the last Friday of June,…

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First flight with our 7 months old son

July 13, 2010

A new flight era starts The plan Being an experienced private pilot, one can just fly around the local airfield or flying to the same airfields all the time (which gets boring quickly) or one can try to do something new and exciting. That’s how I decided that we’d go flying with our 7-month-old son.…

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