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Category Archives: Flying
Blown away
Saturday was another windy day, but the wave was working well. It was the turn of our young (22) club colleague to take the DG303 and he did very well, climbing to 20,000 feet in the wave. Others made it … Continue reading →
Mountain high, and on oxygen!
A great day of soaring for me in the DG 303 on Friday. I achieved a personal best height of 9200 feet in difficult thermals with several climbs to that height and a great view of the white caps on … Continue reading →
Silent flight, with a new view
Here I am at Bunyan, in a howling gale. Jan went off to a conference in Perth, so I decided to go along to a Wave Camp hosted by Canberra Gliding club at their airfield at Bunyan near Cooma. It’s … Continue reading →
A shapely body and a lovely pair of wings
I’ve climbed up through the gliding club’s fleet of planes and now I can fly the top model, a DG-303. It’s a beautiful high-performance machine with slim 15-metre span wings and little winglets at the end. The seating position … Continue reading →
Soaring skywards in warm winter weather
A lovely day’s gliding at Camden yesterday. In winter, despite the days being shorter and the sun lower in the sky, you can still find thermals – the bubbles of rising warm air that keep a glider aloft. But the soaring conditions don’t last … Continue reading →
