It is time to start voting! The highlights of the Rules regarding voting are: Voting by registered Café members will determine the top 10 photos each month. Registered members can cast one vote per photo each day. You can vote for as many photos as you want each day. The Café editors will review the voting and…
The Aero Club of Poland is very active in promoting the idea of “olympic gliding”. The Polish foundation “Smyki na start” whose main goal is promoting engineering and technology among youngsters together with Aero Club of Poland and Warsaw University of Technology are co-operting in order to convince the organisers of the IWG in Wroclaw…
2240 milliard litres of water, that was the head- line on Monday in most of the Dutch papers AND on TV. Normally this amount falls in the WHOLE month of October; not this time. Last Sunday was a day to only look outside and see how the water created little lakes on the street and…
Looking at some of the recent OLC flights from New Zealand there is a number of high mileage flights. It is early spring in the Southern Hemisphere and the small but enthusiastic Auckland Aviation Sports Club has managed to exploit some robust Spring South Westerly's allowing them to do a remarkable flight affectionately called the "Coast Run". In the…
Love great pictures and here is one to start the blog with, shared by Emmo Koetje who flew with Jeppe over Leeuwarden in Friesland [the North of Holland] . We were blessed in the beginning of October, with nice weather, with temperatures up to 22 dgr. not bad for fall.But in a couple of days we […]
Ready for the WEDNESDAY-news straight from my “office” in Holland. Now straight… is a bit much said, as I am late!!! Problems with my laptop again; the user profile service did not accept me on my own laptop. Could not do a thing! The PC doctor just left and it took him an hour to get…
Great weekend at Keiheuvel Airport, even with some rain, it was just pleasure! No doubt about it. Thanks to all over there, for making us SO welcome! LÜSSE Back to the normal blog-style again and time to look at the Lüsse Nationals where German standard and club pilots are still busy with the comps. We…
KEIHEUVEL BELGIUM Restaurant to the left and caravan park to the right. Huge “ runway” in the middle. What a paradise Keiheuvel is!!!! And such lovely people. The airfield is in the middle of trees and white sand, the caravan park under the trees and a high quality restaurant, meeting -place for everybody, on side. It feels so…
Last words about the JWGC with 2 French and 2 Czech pilots [ “we” fly in pairs nowadays!] in the top 3 and a Swiss and Dutch pilot [ very proud on Peter and all who accompanied him through the years to this success] , it was a nice mix of countries , with this time not…
JWGC by Rob Life continued in Leszno with happy moments and frustrations as Aussie TC Beryl mentioned about Friday’s flying and logistics. Ailsa’s crew ,Kerry and Swaantje helped out the first week and Ben young top-Aussie-pilot arrived “late” from Australia to be her crew from now on. ” A frustrating day with an undercarriage problem for…
