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Interesting EGC, unfortunately with a black edge!

With 7 days of flying in a row, the organisation set a well deserved day-off for the EGC pilots in Vinon on Monday. Not always the easiest circumstances due to the weather and lot’s of high mountains, where you have to be alert ALL the time; a good decision. Certainly when pilots in the evening of…

What a nice SUNDAY!1000 km. from Holland!

  What a day last Sunday !!! At 10 AM, I could see clouds popping up already and I felt during the day the cold but strong wind from the thermals here in Alphen. Looking in the evening at the OLC , it indeed was a great day! Cloud Streets till late in the evening, […]

5th April – North Coast Cliffhanger

I was listening to the radio on the way to the gliding club and that old Baz Luhrmann song was playing, you know the one, dishing out life advice by the bucket load and advocating the wearing of sunscreen. Anyway there is a line of that song which goes, “Do one thing everyday that scares…

Swimming with a Shark

I felt the cold clammy hand of fear on the last Friday of April 2013. It wasn’t an irrational fear, like “oooh there is something under the bed” or a nervous fear like standing up to give a presentation; it was from the grim realisation that I had flown myself into a hole with no way out. I know my last article started by alluding that we should do one thing everyday that scares us, as some motivational way to grow and become a better person but I think, on this occasion, I might have taken that notion a bit too literally.

1000 km in a Standard Cirrus in Thermals in Europe!

What about  1000 km. in a Standard Cirrus!? It was flown last Thursday  and believing in the weather forecast from TOP METEO, Michael Ebel flew it and had the day of his life. As I heard from my Lasham friends Alix and Roy, who happened to be there it was shivers all over. Here is […]

Sons beat dad’s! Onion soupe !!!

The Pentecote- weekend was weatherwise not too good here. Only Sunday was OK and that only for a few hours ! The “poor” pilots flying a long weekend in Belgium, this time for the Kiewit Cup, had 2 cancelled days but the one in the middle was reasonable. 41 Competitors in 3 classes and in club the 5 […]