Microlighters

I had my oldest student going solo today :D
He clocks in at a mere 71 years of age
The last aircraft that he flew was a 747 for Qantas and now loves real flying, flying Trikes!!
Our airfield is very "advanced" and takes lots of work to handle (even for the young guys) which he does most competently.

McG
Please post some pics. Also please advise what an "advanced" airfield is?

Well done to your student maybe he should become a member of this here forum so we may congratulate him in person

San

Welldone coooool!!!! :D

tsch! tsch! typical! these kids start flying younger and younger these days. Would like to know what he thinks of all those wasted years sitting in a blik office when he could've been flying trikes. He was probably dreamily staring out the office at the trikes flying below. Congrats! hope you have many more years of real flying.

RV4ker wrote:McG
Please post some pics. Also please advise what an "advanced" airfield is?

Hi RV Ii will post some pictures once I have learnt how to
Our airfield is a one way airfield i.e. you land and take off in opposite directions.We are on the top of a plateau and surrounded by forests.
The wind socks are constantly in a shadow due to the surrounding trees.
We have valleys all around and on the ground we usually have a katabatic westerly.
We do not allow "engine outs" under any circumstances as you have nowhere to go so pre take off checks and excellent engine maintanance are essential for survival.
Due to all of the above students have to learn advanced flying techniques from day one. In all the training, the student will be lucky if they have a couple of take off's or landings into the wind. So cross wind and downwind landings and take off is the order off the day , lots of wind shear when coming into land and also convergence at about 100' off the ground.
We tend to take off almost at our trim speed and come into land at about 10%faster than our trim speed. I dont allow students to come in for landings lower than 60kts in an Airborne XT912 with a streak 3 wing and around 57kts in an Airborne Edge with a Streak 2 wing
I hope that gives you some idea of what I call advanced.

Thanks...

PS
Send me the pics & I'll load them. george @ gbfs . co . za

Gadget wrote:tsch! tsch! typical! these kids start flying younger and younger these days. Would like to know what he thinks of all those wasted years sitting in a blik office when he could've been flying trikes. He was probably dreamily staring out the office at the trikes flying below. Congrats! hope you have many more years of real flying.

are we to believe that you fit in with the rest of the old ballies
OOM Eend and Oom Agent and those gents (after the flip with Demon I decided that he`s not as old as he looks ) are not alone then. Soosn the preflight will look like this:1-Fuel check 2- glasses check 3-Salusa 45 check 4- broeks check instuments check......etc.





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Some pics from McG. For some reason Bily Gates will not allow me to post mo than 1 pic in a post, so there are 5 below in no particular order. Am sure McG will comment on the pics at some stage...

Good to hear from down under mate, and the shots look awsome.

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