Finally, spring has arrived in Luxembourg. Over are the dark rainy days. It changes everyone’s mood right away. Last evening, we invited our Belgian friends Eddy Depickere and his wife Bea for dinner at home. Eddy only told his wife at the last moment that we were going for an evening flight over Luxembourg. Surprise,…

I wanted to charge and update my Garmin GPSMap 495 but discovered that both my batteries do not work anymore. Grrr ! The reason is probably because I did not use my GPS for a year. I called the Garmin support service desk in the UK…and they confirmed that this was indeed the reason. They…

Today, I made a one hour flight with a very special glider at the LFMF airfield of Fayence. This plane (F-CRJB) was built some 30 years ago by gliding instructor Jean Magne. Jean is nowadays 83 years old and still a flying instructor. I planned to fly a Ka-6 glider today, but Jean came to…

Every year, the UPL ( Federation of Luxembourg private pilots) and my flying club Aerosport organise a navigation refresher. This is a fly out whereby the organizers, Bernard Frechen and his team, puts out a navigation with three legs. The club planes are typically occupied by three pilots, randomly chosen out of the participants. Every…

I’m back in flying mood after a couple of years not moving a lot. This week, I renewed all the paperwork in order to be flying again in my club in Luxembourg, ELLX. So now I’m member in three clubs/countries: – Genk in Belgium, Fayence in France and Luxembourg. As today was a beautful spring…

Springtime 2013. On this beautiful weekend, I agreed with my Belgian friend Ludo Holtappels to go for a small navigation in North Eastern Belgium, taking off in our home base of EBZW (Genk Zwartberg – Limburgse Vleugels). After a rainy week, skies cleared up this morning. Ludo had a great idea:”Let’s go to EBZR, meaning…

I renewed all my licences, both for gliding and flying. Now we just have to wait for the spring to arrive

A new year has arrived. I just renewed my medical licence (class 2). As I turned 50 recently, it now needs to be renewed on a yearly basis, that’s the rule. Everything went seamless. I also passed the English proficiency test and obtained the maximal score of 6. That’s excellent news, as it means I never have to pass this language test again…

I admit, I have been not very active on this blog. Why ? Building a house, heeps of work and having now a family. This does not mean however I have not been flying anymore. Not at all, but the environment changed quite radically. This weekend e.g. I’ve made a small flight from my basis…

I am busy with building a new house for our family in Luxembourg, which does not leave me much time anymore for flying activities. I guess it will remain quite on this blog until the spring of 2012. I intend to intensify my flying activities early next year. Sorry for 2011.