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Definitions | The Secret Life of a Glider Pilot
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The Secret Life of a Glider Pilot. Adventures of a female glider pilot in Yorkshire. Some definitions for any non-pilots viewing this site: (I’ll add to this over time):. AMSL – Above Mean Sea Level. CFI – Chief Flying Instructor. TP – Turning Point (or waypoint). Hubby – grumpy, but much-loved man, especially on a good day when it’s my turn for the glider😉. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public).
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New beginnings | The Secret Life of a Glider Pilot
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The Secret Life of a Glider Pilot. Adventures of a female glider pilot in Yorkshire. April 29, 2014. It’s been a while since I last wrote here… and that’s mainly because I’ve had nothing to write about really. The glider has gone to a good owner based at Dunstable, and will no doubt be seen ranging far and wide over the South of England for years to come. I wish Rupert the best of luck and flying. The LS7 is very similar to my LS6, the essential differences being the wing-section and span, lack of flaps,...
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A long year | The Secret Life of a Glider Pilot
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The Secret Life of a Glider Pilot. Adventures of a female glider pilot in Yorkshire. March 6, 2015. One of my regular readers recently pointed out that I hadn’t posted anything for some time, and wondered whether I was still flying and/or instructing. Well, the simple answer is that I would still like to fly, and do try to on occasions, but have been defeated recently by the weather, family, work, and most recently DIY. Yes, you read it correctly. D.I.Y. Oh, and sadly I no longer have a glider to fly😦.
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The Secret Life of a Glider Pilot | Adventures of a female glider pilot in Yorkshire | Page 2
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The Secret Life of a Glider Pilot. Adventures of a female glider pilot in Yorkshire. March 6, 2015. One of my regular readers recently pointed out that I hadn’t posted anything for some time, and wondered whether I was still flying and/or instructing. Well, the simple answer is that I would still like to fly, and do try to on occasions, but have been defeated recently by the weather, family, work, and most recently DIY. Yes, you read it correctly. D.I.Y. Oh, and sadly I no longer have a glider to fly😦.
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Adventures in an LS7 | The Secret Life of a Glider Pilot
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The Secret Life of a Glider Pilot. Adventures of a female glider pilot in Yorkshire. Adventures in an LS7. May 19, 2014. I really should have done the sensible thing and spun the glider on this first flight, so that I was aware of its characteristics, but I was too busy having fun! I decided to save that for the next flight. Gradually I worked my way up to 6,400 feet. After that, I tested the glider’s stall speed at different angles of bank, did some mush-stalling, and some side-slipping, none of w...
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Outlanding stories: Wet wet wet at Pickering | The Secret Life of a Glider Pilot
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The Secret Life of a Glider Pilot. Adventures of a female glider pilot in Yorkshire. Outlanding stories: Wet wet wet at Pickering. January 7, 2014. It’s funny how my most memorable landouts seem to happen when flying competition tasks. Whether it’s because the tasks are sent into more unfamiliar territory, or that I push myself further, I don’t know. But here’s another one from a couple of years back. We all left the field with a huge sigh of relief, as you might imagine. It just goes to show, even when ...
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Outlanding stories: Bird-watching in Hampshire | The Secret Life of a Glider Pilot
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The Secret Life of a Glider Pilot. Adventures of a female glider pilot in Yorkshire. Outlanding stories: Bird-watching in Hampshire. December 19, 2013. I’ve just logged in to my blog and am amazed at the stats. You lot must have nothing better to do at the moment, judging by the number of views of my blog! But thanks for reading😉. I have my share of those tales. Because it’s Winter, nearly Christmas, and we’re all bored, here’s one such tale from my collection. I picked a massive field, which had a Tumu...
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An interesting wave flight | The Secret Life of a Glider Pilot
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The Secret Life of a Glider Pilot. Adventures of a female glider pilot in Yorkshire. An interesting wave flight. October 6, 2013. I seem to have had more then the usual number of wave flights this year, which is great! I love flying in wave, it’s always different, and always challenging to some degree. Lunch over, the sky began to look better. More defined wave bars were developing and so I decided to give it a go. Best climb of the day – 4.5 knots, near Thirsk. Looking north-west, overhead Leeming.
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Teaching deaf students to fly | The Secret Life of a Glider Pilot
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The Secret Life of a Glider Pilot. Adventures of a female glider pilot in Yorkshire. Teaching deaf students to fly. March 23, 2015. At long last I’ve had a duty day where the weather cooperated. Yesterday I did quite a lot of flying, in the lovely spring weather, which was great😀. There were enough students to go around, the spring weather seemed to bring everyone out of hibernation. Or perhaps the contact details of the deaf-students instructor in the UK? Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Larr; Previous Post.
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The Secret Life of a Glider Pilot. Adventures of a female glider pilot in Yorkshire. April 19, 2016. Next weekend, I have to return the Cirrus to its owner, for him to fly it prior to flying the Club Class Nationals at Pocklington near York, at the end of May. So, last weekend was my last chance to fly her for a month or so, until I get her back and fly the Northern Regionals myself. Having only had 2 flights in her so far, totalling 3 hours or air-time, I was desperate to get in the air and do. Unfortun...
