Tuesday 11/22 OK – so much for “I won’t fly until Wednesday”. Today turned out to be a really pretty good day. A new young German pilot did his first 300km (so he bought all the beer tonight) and one of the more experienced fellows did a bit over 400km. My Nimbus got done...
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Flight Logs provides stories and articles about interesting flights our readers have made. These flights might be someone’s first solo, a badge flight, or a record flight. With the OLC now so popular, Flight Logs will also be a great place to tell everyone about your latest big flight. Every flight is interesting to someone!
2011 Bloemfontein South Africa Report, Day #1
November 2011 Bloemfontein South Africa Report
Every year I try to take a gliding vacation and in 2005 I visited South Africa for the first time and just fell in love with flying here. This is my 7th trip and, like earlier years, I will try to send on daily “reports” to friends back home. These daily reports really began...
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African Conditions in Germany
This was sent to the Cafe by Eric Neubronner in Germany. Looks like a great day! — Ed. Last Saturday we had African conditions in Germany. Cloud Base at approx 3800m, airspace only gives us 3000m . Well, what a pity but still had some nice flights. Here some pictures taken from our Arcus...
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First impression – JS1
After de-registering VH-VJS and returning the Nimbus 3 to the USA, imagine my surprise at being invited to fly VH-VJS during my recent trip to Australia! While a few of you will have seen Steve Leonard’s VJS at open class contests in the USA, the Australian VJS is now Todd Clark’s JS1 hangared at...
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Young Fabian Tells His 1000 km Story!
Here is the translation from an exclusive “retrospect” by Fabian Peitz, who flew HIS first and Australia’s first 1000 km for this season AND the first 1000 km from Stonefield as well! To remain exclusive, I publish it at the same time as my blog, this Wednesday. —-It all started on the evening of...
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Capturing the PASCO Egg
If you're from region 11, you may know about the PASCO Egg regional capture trophy. A beautiful walnut (I think) egg that is occasionally captured from various glider operations mostly in Northern California and Nevada. It has been a goal of mine to try and capture the Egg for Avenal from what has practically...
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