After yesterday’s surprise storms none of us were very confident about the weather forecast and so the task today was designed to keep us reasonably close into the airport if storms developed again. I selected a 500km task from New Tempe up to Christiana, and then down to the diamond mine at Koffiefontein. At the…
Flight Logs
Flying Day 6, November 27
by Bill Elliott •
Flying Day 5, November 26
by Bill Elliott •
Flying Day 4, My Birthday
by Bill Elliott •
Today was my 60th birthday and they presented me with a big chocolate cake at the pilot’s meeting. It went with fish & chips for supper at the end of the day. I can’t imagine a better birthday than being here with friends flying gliders in November. The day was completely blue and we declared…
Flying Day 3, Thursday 11/24 (Thanksgiving)
by Bill Elliott •
The weather here changes so fast. Last night it was really windy and the morning was cold and blowing. But, by the 10 am pilots meeting it had died down and was looking like a pretty good day. We set a 410 km chevron shaped task with the first turn at Westpoint (where we clear…
Flying Day 2, Wednesday 11/23
by Bill Elliott •
Chilhowee Vintage Rally – May 27
by Bill Elliott •
Today promised to be warmer and we hoped for some better soaring conditions. Unfortunately the last two remaining visiting Vintage gliders, the Ka-8 and Ka-10, loaded up and left this morning. We were sorry to see them go but hoped that it meant good things for our potential. Pete VonTresckow and I had earned a…
Chilhowee Vintage Rally – May 26
by Bill Elliott •
Leah and I arrived late last night for the Vintage Sailplane Association‘s rally here at Chilhowee Gliderport. Unfortunately we weren’t able to bring a glider since we flew down on a Boeing 717 courtesy of Air Tran. However, we figured we would be able to rent some of the gliders here from Sarah and…
Flying Day 1, Tuesday 11/22
by Bill Elliott •
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 with the tail…