I received a naughty call just now ...

[kloot piloot]

"Can you join me, I need to fly a Blarnik glider from Brits to Potch".

OK, sounds lekker ... when ?

"NOW ! See you 11h00 at FABS".

Bye, bye office ... hello fun !

[Bulletjie]

Kom nou Kloot. Dit was nou nie nodig nie!!!! Geniet dit!

[nicow]

Jou prioriteite is reg
Enjoy

[kloot piloot]

Just got back home.

Did not make Potch, got bogged down over Rustenburg by a big Cu-nim which put shadow all over the place. Dry air moved in from the SW. Had a low safe over Marikana and lots of grovelling to slowly climb at 0.5 m/s back to 10 500 ASL and enough to make it back to Brits. If we landed out, I would probably only typed this by 03h00AM tomorrow.

Compared to the office, this was an excellent business desicion. 2 hours of beautiful, bouncing, tight core thermals. Best climb was 5 m/s up, worst glides were way over 5 m/s down. Longest glide was 35 km. Not the best, but better than pushing a mouse around on a desk.

Photos to follow.

Thanks Louw for an awesome weekday (and for giving me the stick on the way back), Rainer for the serious aerotow with BIG density altitude at Brits at 12h30 and Bennie for giving me your seat (because you had to push a mouse around today).

[nicow]

We'll wait for the photos...

[kloot piloot]

Oh drat: "The file is too big, maximum allowed size is 100 KiB"

Let's try some more re-sizing ...

[kloot piloot]

F&ck drat too: "Your message contains too few characters."

[Asterix]

" 2 hours of beautiful, bouncing, tight core thermals."

But Trikers still fear these... WHY? (Or am I just ignorant? ) Looking forward to your talk @ Microland. I'll be flying in from Potties for this one. Weather permitting..

[kloot piloot]

What a schlepp Look how small these photos are now. Anyway ...

[velocity]

shame you didn't make it kloot piloot - that Blanik was my ride to 2500ft agl at Potch tomorrow...



Awesome glider and people at Kranskop Gliding Club - maybe next time
V

[kloot piloot]

Velocity,
Jou mal bliksem
It took you 2500ft to realize the thing you were in had no engine ?

If you have that video clip of your jump at Brits, don't you want to post it here ? It looked awesome

[velocity]

Velocity,
Jou mal bliksem
It took you 2500ft to realize the thing you were in had no engine ?

If you have that video clip of your jump at Brits, don't you want to post it here ? It looked awesome

LOL Daniel did the edit but I only have the link to the clip he put on Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151482334652627

Cheers V