Getting back to normal life in Australia involves, of course, getting back into the air. I manage a three hour and 17 minute flight in the DG303 soaring above Camden, The Oaks, Menangle and Picton. Glorious sunny Sydney weather puts me in danger of sunburn, I have to remember that sunscreen season is now here.
I go gliding again on Wednesday. I have an outlanding check with an instructor in a two-seat glider. This check is needed each year to allow you to fly across country in the club gliders. The idea is to land safely and in a short distance in an unfamiliar paddock. For the purpose of this exercise we are towed up and land on a grass runway at a nearby light aircraft landing strip, The Oaks.
The instructor is satisfied with my circuit planning and landing. The hard bit is pushing back the glider to the start of the strip so the tug has a full length of runway for the takeoff to tow you back towards Camden.
That was fun. It means I can go to the annual camp in January and try for more cross-country distance flying.
