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Zilly, if you go to G-INFO, the CAA database, you can find the current owner of G-CJDR.
GINFO Database Search | Aircraft Register | Safety Regulation
I don't know who has it, don't recognise the name. It is based in Kent.
You may recall me at North Weald and Ridgewell.
Chris N.
GINFO Database Search | Aircraft Register | Safety Regulation
I don't know who has it, don't recognise the name. It is based in Kent.
You may recall me at North Weald and Ridgewell.
Chris N.
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I glide at deeside gliding club at aboyne. Great site, haven't done as much in the past year as I would have liked to. Just working towards bronze but have a ppl.
Sunday sees the start of the UK mountain soaring championships, no doubt there will be pictures and info on the web site if your interested to find out how it's going. Click the UKMSC link on www.deesideglidingclub.co.uk
happy soaring
Sunday sees the start of the UK mountain soaring championships, no doubt there will be pictures and info on the web site if your interested to find out how it's going. Click the UKMSC link on www.deesideglidingclub.co.uk
happy soaring
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Sollas...many happy hours spent flying my Pilatus b4 in that neck of the woods.......mainly at Feshiebridge...one of the most exciting places to fly you could find.......great hill lift, especially once you move round into the bowl...a big decision to make though from the front hill to the back...will I have enough height on to make the bowl?????.......good thermals on nice sunny days popping of the ridges and cracking wave in the right conditions!!.........did my Silver duration 5 hours flying the ridge in a snow storm one April many moons ago...... sold the B4 about 20 years ago and took up sailing instead but now got a hanckering to get back flying and convert my 300 hours P1 into an NPPL...
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fisbangwollop, glad to hear you had so much fun gliding.
We have a good selection of club gliders, 3 puchacz, 1 junior, 1 asw 19 and a discus, and if your in our neck of the woods a reasonably priced bar and some bunk rooms if your tempted to get back into gliding or fancy a weekend away to try it again.
I think you get 10% of your P1 time upto a maximum of 10 hours towards your ppl, not quite as much off the time as in days gone by with having your silver c. Its all in LASORS
Best of luck if your go for it.
sollas
We have a good selection of club gliders, 3 puchacz, 1 junior, 1 asw 19 and a discus, and if your in our neck of the woods a reasonably priced bar and some bunk rooms if your tempted to get back into gliding or fancy a weekend away to try it again.
I think you get 10% of your P1 time upto a maximum of 10 hours towards your ppl, not quite as much off the time as in days gone by with having your silver c. Its all in LASORS
Best of luck if your go for it.
sollas
If they are between ten and fourteen, they will want to learn, and still be too young to solo, and YOU are the wrong one to teach them!
If they are over 14, under 21, as above. Though probably more interested in the opposite sex by this time. Joining a youngster's group at your local club (like ours at Shenington) gives them friends and kindred spirits, and fully qualified instructors.
If your wife/girlfriend wants to fly with you, in a glider, once again you will probably put her off for life.
Same result as for the under tens.
-- IFMU
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IFMU, Mary probably means 'too long ahead of being able to solo' as in the UK it's 2 years later, 16. I guess the rest depends on individuals and as you say, 'brainwashing'
EDIT as reply for IFMU's post below: Well, and Australia, 15yo to solo. NZ should be 16 these days (found some bits of info possibly from past, that NZ CAA allowed under 16 solo in the past, don't bother too much about it). I get to do more research on various flying in various countries, so I see it more. There were some keen youngsters in the past who were good enough to fly solo so they soloed on their hols in Australia etc.
EDIT as reply for IFMU's post below: Well, and Australia, 15yo to solo. NZ should be 16 these days (found some bits of info possibly from past, that NZ CAA allowed under 16 solo in the past, don't bother too much about it). I get to do more research on various flying in various countries, so I see it more. There were some keen youngsters in the past who were good enough to fly solo so they soloed on their hols in Australia etc.
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MartinCh,
Thanks, did not realize it was 16 to solo a glider in the UK. Here we can solo a glider at 14, power at 16. Doesn't mean it makes sense here in the US, but it does seem to work ok.
-- IFMU
Thanks, did not realize it was 16 to solo a glider in the UK. Here we can solo a glider at 14, power at 16. Doesn't mean it makes sense here in the US, but it does seem to work ok.
-- IFMU
First PPT
My first real rope break today. Was flying with my 8 year old son in the back. A bit windy. On the second flight the rope busted just before the edge of the ridge, we were about 100'. We coasted over, figured I was in the emergency field. Nice thing about harris hill, you get over the edge then you have an immediate 800' below to the valley and the emergency field. The winds had shifted enough from west to northwest that I was able to climb up about 600' and make a landing. My 8 year old thought it was great and has the busted weak link rope as a souvenir.
-- IFMU
-- IFMU
Nice bit of flying IFMU -- can we call that a low save
One of our members recently lost the rope not very far above 100' over flat country and bent the glider getting back.
We are not at all sure what happened, but the suggestion not to fiddle with the rudder pedal adjustment when low on tow has been made
One of our members recently lost the rope not very far above 100' over flat country and bent the glider getting back.
We are not at all sure what happened, but the suggestion not to fiddle with the rudder pedal adjustment when low on tow has been made
Many glider pilots would be familiar with the excellent 'Accidents Happen',
by Ann Welch. If they are not, it should be put on the must read list without delay. Typical of her reporting is the one she included about a very lucky glider pilot.
It has to do with a 3 glider X-country tow in Jugoslavia. Three gliders behind three PO2s.
They were flying close together because the Jugoslav pilots enjoyed flying in close formation. (Their aeroplanes were smaller than the gliders). Shortly after take-off the middle glider, piloted by a Swiss, started to fly in a most erratic manner. This was unexpected because he was known to be a most competent pilot.Ann and the third glider pilot, on either side of the Swiss, watched the performance warily, ready to release if the collision risk became too high.
The Swiss fellow's glider continued to be flown as if the man were inebriated.
Arriving overhead their destination,the Swiss released, opened his airbrakes and went rapidly down, while the others released and stayed up in the evening sunshine as long as they could.
What had happened was that shortly after take-off the Swiss pilot had decided to have a smoke (permitted in fuelless gliders), but his box of non-safety matches had burst into flames and not surprisingly he had dropped them. The ball of fire disappeared out of reach under his plywood seat where the control cables lay.
Thoroughly alarmed in his wooden glider the pilot wondered whether to release and land in the unsafe looking country below, jump out by parachute before this too caught alight, or try somehow to extinguish the fire.
He kept feeling the base of the control column to see if it was getting warm, and wriggling about in his seat to extinguish any hot spots his parachute might be acquiring. During one of these body shifts both bottom seat harness straps came free, charred right through. None of this improved his formation flying capability.
Becoming desperate, he suddenly remembered that he had a bag of plums in his pocket. Laboriously he wrung out the meagre juice from each plum above where he hoped its dribbles would do most good. Not any too soon did the welcoming home airfield appear, with the Swiss pilot losing no time at all in getting back to terra firma.
It turned out that for the last minutes of his flight, there had, in fact, been no problem. The fire had burnt through the bottom of the fuselage and fallen out.
The Jugoslavs thought it was hilarious.
by Ann Welch. If they are not, it should be put on the must read list without delay. Typical of her reporting is the one she included about a very lucky glider pilot.
It has to do with a 3 glider X-country tow in Jugoslavia. Three gliders behind three PO2s.
They were flying close together because the Jugoslav pilots enjoyed flying in close formation. (Their aeroplanes were smaller than the gliders). Shortly after take-off the middle glider, piloted by a Swiss, started to fly in a most erratic manner. This was unexpected because he was known to be a most competent pilot.Ann and the third glider pilot, on either side of the Swiss, watched the performance warily, ready to release if the collision risk became too high.
The Swiss fellow's glider continued to be flown as if the man were inebriated.
Arriving overhead their destination,the Swiss released, opened his airbrakes and went rapidly down, while the others released and stayed up in the evening sunshine as long as they could.
What had happened was that shortly after take-off the Swiss pilot had decided to have a smoke (permitted in fuelless gliders), but his box of non-safety matches had burst into flames and not surprisingly he had dropped them. The ball of fire disappeared out of reach under his plywood seat where the control cables lay.
Thoroughly alarmed in his wooden glider the pilot wondered whether to release and land in the unsafe looking country below, jump out by parachute before this too caught alight, or try somehow to extinguish the fire.
He kept feeling the base of the control column to see if it was getting warm, and wriggling about in his seat to extinguish any hot spots his parachute might be acquiring. During one of these body shifts both bottom seat harness straps came free, charred right through. None of this improved his formation flying capability.
Becoming desperate, he suddenly remembered that he had a bag of plums in his pocket. Laboriously he wrung out the meagre juice from each plum above where he hoped its dribbles would do most good. Not any too soon did the welcoming home airfield appear, with the Swiss pilot losing no time at all in getting back to terra firma.
It turned out that for the last minutes of his flight, there had, in fact, been no problem. The fire had burnt through the bottom of the fuselage and fallen out.
The Jugoslavs thought it was hilarious.
I miss the Blanik very much. I spent many happy hours in the back seat, instructing students and introducing them to wave-flying.
I much preferred flying from the back seat. Better stick-geometry and more room, although laterally, it was like wearing "blinkers".
I always found the front stick too tall and I use to encourage my students to hold the stick at or below the bottom of the hand grip, so that they could brace their forearms on their thighs, to prevent PIOs on take off.
In the 70s, I was in a club that had an IS-28B2 Lark. It was interesting to see, during some "owner maintenance" (ahem!), that the manufacturer, ICA Brasov, had copied the Blanik's control geometry exactly.
I much preferred flying from the back seat. Better stick-geometry and more room, although laterally, it was like wearing "blinkers".
I always found the front stick too tall and I use to encourage my students to hold the stick at or below the bottom of the hand grip, so that they could brace their forearms on their thighs, to prevent PIOs on take off.
In the 70s, I was in a club that had an IS-28B2 Lark. It was interesting to see, during some "owner maintenance" (ahem!), that the manufacturer, ICA Brasov, had copied the Blanik's control geometry exactly.
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One of the first aircraft I flew was a Blanik; that and a T21 'Barge'. Both were at Nympsfield in the glorious summer of 1976 on a week's gliding course.
Joined Derby & Lancs when we got home. Got lots of tractor time.
Joined LAC at Barton in '78. Had a PPL and a Chippy share by '79! Never looked back!
Joined Derby & Lancs when we got home. Got lots of tractor time.
Joined LAC at Barton in '78. Had a PPL and a Chippy share by '79! Never looked back!
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Thanks for comments, it's quite an interesting observation! I will try to do this during my next flight.
