What did you fly this week

[DarkHelmet]

MMM... I hear there are some seriously low flying jets about Hoedspruit, but I will be to the north of the Hoedspruit TMA, on 123.45...

Yes, there is a MIL base somewhere to the south, but I plan no kamikaze with mirages...

Hoedspruit is in Mpumalanga... Bushveld, lowveld, low altitude, high performance trike ACTION...

[DarkHelmet]

I will see where my guide leads me Demon.. my nube arms need a LOT of direction still, but i will be sure to report back on every thrilling moment!

[DarkHelmet]

No escarpment galavanting for me ... ZU-AXC is going on the back of the trailer for the trip down and back up... Low altitude jets in the toolbox and upon the arrival they will be going in...

[RV4ker (RIP)]

Dream about flying while they bitch and moan about not having anywhere to fly to, ATNS charges, WX, wind, cost of flying etc....

PS
Unfortunatley till Jabi bring out 6 seater my Sunday arvies are with Fam. RV can only take 1 (2 at push), so those left behind give mom a hell of a hard time, so we all stay to keep the peace.... (That why I am able to hook up with you in week, until kids learn to use net then they will know I sneeking off to sky (playground) without them.

[Sonex711]

And Sunday afternoon I decided to cross the dreaded FAWK line from W t E and visit Kitty Hwk and Rhino Park...dead. Not a single aircraft around Was it the 10 knot wind
Off to Bapsfontein, met one Bushbaby just taken off.
Off to Microland - one trike in the sky and a couple of guys on the ground
What do pilots do on Sunday afternoons

They do their 25hr maintenance

demon, I thought it was you. There I was on the ground cleaning my airfilter

[Cloud Warrior]

Did 40 minutes of circuits in two sessions around Saldanha on Saturday. Haven't flown for nearly two months due to work and lousy weather and just to make things easier had to train on a Windlass instead of the usual Safari (engine kaput). Amazingly all my landings were pretty good so was very pleased with my day in the office. Probably had something to do with the fact that we flew a reduced circuit which didn't give me time to think about what I was doing as well as it being $@$%ing cold up there. Now have just over 6 hours under the belt.

[ACE]

Went to the Vaal dam with a mean tailwind so decided not to go too far, knowing I'd have a hard time getting back. My GPS gave a max ground speed of 101Mph going there. The return was oh-so-slow, guys on bicycles were passing me.
As an experiment, I pushed the bar forward with a bit less than cruise power, till the wing gave me a bump to tell me it was ready to stop flying, my track log later revealed a minimum speed of 7.8 Mph. So if I was about to stall at 30Mph indicated airspeed, less say 8Mph ground speed, that leaves a headwind component of 22Mph - that's about 19 Knots. Does this sound right ??
Judging by the radio traffic on Special Rules East, Circus had the action, in hindsight I should have visited there for coffee and saved myself a butt-numbing return from the damn dam. The landing back at Klipriver into a stiff but steady wind provided one of my shortest landing rolls ever!!
Altogether, still an enjoyable outing.
Cheers.

[Morph]

Didn't fly at all, couldn't get the F#$%$%%^ thing started and I didn't have any jumper leads. Gotta get an AP to check it out.

[Nasser]

Nothing , Friday work intervered and WX K@k on saturday i now seriously need to get in the air soon....

[RV4ker (RIP)]

Nass

What happend to Jabi at FAKT on Sun? Heard you may have been there? Saw the skid marks and heard a story.... Was it Kurt's Jabi?

[RV4ker (RIP)]

Did they have U/C problems and based on skid marks seems they were still at speed at end of runway (Thresh of 19)?

[150]

Funny WX on Friday and yesterday after lunch, but got some hours in yesterday during the morning

[RV4ker (RIP)]

NOTHING, but hope to get 3-4 hrs in on RV tomorrow

[Redeye]

Spend the whole weekend putting around low and slow in the stinson
wheather was perfect- no destinations-- evry time i landed i was on the ground for an hour or so but just had to go up again

[Wart]

At last I was back in the sky :D :D :D :D
After 4 weeks of nothing I got in 2.3 hours of instruction and feel sooooo much better now. So much better that in fact I am going to take Friday off to make it a long weekend and get some more hours in.
Did low level passes, re-capped 6-11 and did engine out landing (out-field). This is just so cool :D :D :D
Wish I had started many years ago.
By the way, in line with this forum subject, I flew an Aquilla 503!