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Category Archives: Flying
Showtime for gliding
On Sunday Jan and I drove down to Wollongong for the Wings Over Illawarra air show. We arrived early – 9am – because we were helping at the glider exhibit. My gliding club – Southern Cross – had taken a … Continue reading →
An up-and-down day
I went gliding on Easter Monday. The soaring forecast was half decent – the best for a while. When I arrived at Camden I found that, unusually, there was no queue of pilots wanting to fly the high-performance two-seat glider … Continue reading →
Reflections on a summer camp
This year’s Southern Cross Gliding Club annual camp in Cootamundra was not a great one for me. Gliding is a weather-based sport, and the weather did not play ball. It was hot (good), but also windy some days (bad) and … Continue reading →
The lure of the Pitts Special
I’ve been back in the air in an aerobatic aircraft. I managed to persuade a fellow glider pilot and tug pilot Fred Best, to take me for a ride in a Pitts S2c. This is a bigger two-seat version of … Continue reading →
Taking the medicine
I went gliding yesterday after a gap of two months. Sydney’s hottest April day on record – 35 degrees in the city and about 38 at Camden. The lift was marginal, but Julian and I managed a 1hr 12 min … Continue reading →
