ZU-DVE (and ZS-WUO) (and ZEE) Flight Log

[gertcoetzee]

10 July 2007

Returned from holiday last night at 22h00. Was in the air this morning at 10h00.

See http://www.zu-dve.com for log

[gertcoetzee]

10 July 2007

Returned from holiday last night at 22h00. Was in the air this morning at 10h00.

See http://www.zu-dve.com for log

[Tumbleweed]

What, the pax' helmet?

[gertcoetzee]

Not quite flying, but related in the sense that it has kept me from flying the past two weeks - see the link from the main page of http://www.zu-dve.com for my holiday pics in Turkey, where we had one day at 50 Celcius.

[gertcoetzee]

13 to 15 July 2007

Just under 10 hours flying!
578 miles
See the website, www.zu-dve.com for pictures

[gertcoetzee]

19 July 2007

Despite clouds needed a fix. 40 minutes. See http://www.zu-dve.com

[skydancer]

ooooh,seems pretty scary though,werent you scared of getting trapped above clouds with no ground visibilty?Great pic lol

Kind regards

Mark

[Robin Hood]

Gert, Firekken amazing your photos of the Matjiesfontein trip. My old man was born there - 1921!! Really a wonderful trip man!

[gertcoetzee]

22 July 2007

A great day of flying with Hans, Dick and Graham. Did some formation flying and Graham took a lot of pictures. He will post later. See
http://www.zu-dve.com for the log. 3.5 hours

Mark, no, the pictures is deceptive. There was a patch of cloudless sky stretching from Morningstar to the sea - if you look at the picture on the log you will see the coast was clear, so to speak.

"Robin Hood", yes the trip to Ladysmith via Matjiesfontein was great. The runway at Matjiesfontein is just 500m from town. We landed there, and walked to town. Once we got to town, a certain Baldheaded Eagle became restless about the trikes standing on their own, and we had to head back before we could really explore.

[skydancer]

Great pictures there Gert and thanks for the info.Keep up the excellent flying!

Kind regards

Mark

[gertcoetzee]

1 August 2007.

1.5 hours of great flying. Started off low level, went to Agricultural school and got clapped at the foot of Paarl mountain. See log http://www.zu-dve.com

[Biggles]

very good reason why ag pilots doen't use a radio... they don't have too. Flying nap of the earth dodging telephone lines and fences the last thing you need to worry about is a radio. I believe they are not required to use a radio... They are brightly coloured and usually right down on the deck.

Also a few trucks parked at your, usually deserted, favourite farm strip is usually a good clue that there is an ag plane around.

I counted 4 in one flight up the berg river valley to tulbagh last month.

[gertcoetzee]

Oh yes I agree, we normally know when they are around - but i am more worried about the ones we don't know about. A call every 30 minutes or so would be OK. More interesting would be to know whether or not they are listening - in which case I would feel slightly better. I heard that that story about no necessity to transmit if you are below 1500 or so no longer applies.

[gertcoetzee]

4 August 2007

1:50 flying with Riaan, Francois & Graham.

Never trust hangar mates when you are in the air John.

See http://www.zu-dve.com for today's log.

[Bacardi]

...the De Hoek PPC cement factory where I do my little thing periodically, that's the smoky thingie at the left tip of the wing.